Situation awareness-based agent transparency and human-autonomy teaming effectiveness

@article{Chen2018SituationAA,
  title={Situation awareness-based agent transparency and human-autonomy teaming effectiveness},
  author={Jessie Y.C. Chen and Shan G. Lakhmani and Kimberly Stowers and Anthony R. Selkowitz and Julia L. Wright and Michael J. Barnes},
  journal={Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science},
  year={2018},
  volume={19},
  pages={259 - 282}
}
ABSTRACT Effective collaboration between humans and agents depends on humans maintaining an appropriate understanding of and calibrated trust in the judgment of their agent counterparts. The Situation Awareness-based Agent Transparency (SAT) model was proposed to support human awareness in human–agent teams. As agents transition from tools to artificial teammates, an expansion of the model is necessary to support teamwork paradigms, which require bidirectional transparency. We propose that an… 
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