9th symposium on human interaction with complex systems 2009 (HICS-2009)

07:00-08:00 - Registration and Continental Breakfast - Foyer Salons A&B

08:00-08:10 - Administrative Comments

Dr. Celestine A. Ntuen, Distinguished University Professor and Conference General Chair, North Carolina A&T State University

08:10-09:10 - Keynote Address

The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Mike Barnes, ARL-Fort Huachuca, AZ

The Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and partner Tank and Automotive Research Development Command (TARDEC) embarked on a 5-year Army Technology Objective (ATO) research program that addressed human robot interaction (HRI) and teaming for both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The program’s objective was to understand HRI issues in order to develop technologies and mitigations that enhance HRI performance in future combat environments. In order to put the five year program in manageable perspective, we will summarize five important HRI principles and supporting results that emerged from the research effort. The principles cover the benefits of teaming relations for robotic missions as well as crew multitasking problems associated with future robotic mission and possible solutions. We also discuss the importance of individual differences for HRI design and training implications and the advantages of multimodal interfaces and adaptive automation

09:20-11:55 - PANEL II: Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensemaking, LTC Peter B. Walker, Ph.D. (Chair)

Dr. Thomas D. Parson, USC/ICT

Dr. John Cohen, ONR

Dr. Joseph Psotka, ARI

Dr. Van Parunak, Vector Research Center

Dr. Mario Aguilar, Teledyne

Mr. Kenneth Grippo, USAASC

Mr. R. H. Holder, III, JHAPL

PANEL Abstract by Applications, LCDR Joseph Cohn, PhD, DARPA/DSO, MSC USN

Title: Understanding and Leveraging the Neuroscience of Intuition for Warfighter

Increasingly, our Warfighters are finding themselves confronting situations for which they have no direct preparation - or past experience –upon which to fall back on for guidance. Yet, despite this seeming lack of training, anecdotal reports from the field suggest that many Warfighters are able to make fast, almost unconscious decisions based on minimal, conflicting, or limited information - and to do so correctly. I propose that this kind of decision making represents an example of a cognitive process known as Intuition, and that given the right technologies, it is possible to detect this process as it occurs, and to distinguish both its structural and temporal characteristics for use in to-be-developed sensemaking and decision support technologies. In this talk, I will provide some background on this research, share some emerging results and propose some future applications that could make use of this signal.

12:00-13:00 - LUNCH – Salons A&B

13:00-14:30 - Panel I & II Combined Insights for Human Dimension

14:40-16:40 - Track Presentations (see below)

16:40-17:40 - Seminar: Agent-based simulation seminar

Dr. Jeffrey A. Smith

Track Presentations

Track 4: Complex Systems,

Ham (Chair), Hung(Assistant Chair)

Room: Salons A&B

14:40-14:55 - Nested logit model of airport traveler’s activity patterns

Liu/Usher/Straderman

14:55-15:10 - Analysis of a complex network of nano elements and products

Onel/Shah/Ozbek/Zeid/Kamarthi

15:10-15:25 - Complex adaptive systems: Implications for leadership

Miller

15:25-15:40 - An exploration of different approaches to complex systems development and their implications for integration of uninhabited aircraft (UA) into the National Airspace System (NAS)

Neville/Rhoades

15:40-15:55 - TACOM-based evaluation of the complexity of tasks for abnormal situations in nuclear power plants

Ham/Park/Jung

15:55-16:10 - Challenges for the adoption of construction safety information technology

Hung/Smith-Jackson/Winchester

16:10-16:25 - Human interaction with multimodal human-machine interface: Current status and research perspective

Osafo-Yeboah

16:25-16:40 - Break

Track 5: Applied Sensemaking,

Spring(Chair), deMatto(Assistant Chair)

Room: Salon C

14:40-14:55 - Structural equation modeling as a design aiding tool for product supportability analysis