8Human Teaming with Automation and Advanced Agents
Barrett S. Caldwell1, Rua M. Williams2, and C. Nuela Enebechi3
1Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering and School of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
2Department of Computer Graphics and Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
3Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
8.1 Introduction
Teams are pervasive across so many areas of human professional and social activity. Competitive team sports are shown every day on broadcast and social media sources, with broadcaster teams supporting the competition itself. First responders are busy responding to local and regional emergencies; military operations are being conducted across the world. As a result, it is easy to believe that the processes and system dynamics of team performance are well understood. Even with this short list of examples, the range of teaming activities and even the composition of the teams themselves do not enable a simple definition of the concept of teaming activity or performance. Teams in competitive sports, emergency response operations, or military efforts are not restricted to collections of humans only, nor do the team members have identical capabilities, expectations, or roles to perform. These social and technical complexities exist as critical elements of our study of teaming, and our goals for how to improve our understanding and enhancement of team ...
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