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Background
HAT is becoming increasingly important the defense domain, for example in the fighter aircraft application that is the problem area of this thesis, but also in other domains such as transportation, industrial automation, and decision support systems. As autonomous systems take on more advanced roles, there is a growing need to understand not only how humans and autonomous systems perform individually, but also how effectively they function as members of a team. This shift creates new challenges for understanding, evaluating and - most of all - improving how humans and autonomous agents collaborate to achieve shared goals.
While numerous approaches exist for measuring human and autonomous system -performance individually, assessing their performance as a team remains a largely open problem. For a system to be able to monitor, evaluate and influence HAT, two closely connected capabilities will be required: 1) administer and calculate measurements of team performance and 2) innovative interfaces that visualize these measurements as well as the workings of the team in ways that allows the team to be understood, supported and directed. These capabilities provide researchers and operators with tools to collect teaming data, visualize team status, communicate key performance indicators, and support experimentation with different teaming concepts.
Description of the Thesis Project
The primary objective of this thesis is to design, implement, and evaluate an HMI that provide examples of innovative HAT interfaces as described above. The challenge is to create an HMI that enable presentation and visualization of information related to team performance and teaming, while also supporting different stakeholder viewpoints - such as operators (decision makers), researchers, and observers. For example, a researcher can use this HMI to monitor the status of a manned-unmanned flight team and measure its performance by administering selected measurements at given times or events.