The Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group (AIC) is seeking staff and student participants to take part in its study exploring trust in human-swarm teams.
What are human-swarm teams?
Robotic swarms are autonomous systems involving many drones. Swarms are effective in situations that require exploration of an area as they can cover a lot more ground in a shorter amount of time than a single drone can. However, it has been shown that swarms underperform in complex, dynamic and unstructured environments, and the individual drones in the swarm typically have limited sensing capabilities.
Humans have been shown to be able to offset these weaknesses by being able to supervise the swarm and provide goal updates or assign tasks to the swarm. For this reason, the research area of Human-Swarm Interaction (HSI) is gaining in popularity, aiming to improve the performance and trustworthiness of human-swarm teams.
What will happen during the experiment?
In this experiment, the project group is using a simulator that enables a pair of humans to work in a team with a simulated swarm in a search and rescue, post-natural disaster scenario. Participants will be paired up by the research team and assigned roles within the human-swarm team. The project is interested in exploring how the performance of the swarm and the level of communication within the team affects the levels of trust within the team.
How to take part
The experiment will take around 45 minutes, and you will receive a £10 Amazon voucher for taking part. It will be running at multiple time slots between Tuesday 13 June and Friday 16 June in room 58 / 1047 (Murray Building).
If you are interested in taking part, please email Ashley Pare for more information: [email protected]
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