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Over 100 researchers from more than 11 organizations came to ASU for the meeting. Thanks to all the contributors, the event was very productive and enjoyable.
I received the following notice from HFES today:
The Defense Innovation Board (DIB), an independent advisory committee tasked with considering how to improve the internal operations and culture of the Department of Defense (DOD), released a draft report of its long-anticipated recommendations for principles of artificial intelligence (AI) at DOD. The Board’s principles and subsequent recommendations are generally aligned with and reflect the issues and recommendations highlighted in HFES’s public comments that were submitted for DIB’s consideration in September. Learn More I got 150+ interested individuals for establishing a new technical group on Human-AI-Robot Teaming. Activities will launch in HFES 2020.
August 26, 2019
"The members of the Desert WAVE robotics team from Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus are returning to school this month as the best-performing underwater autonomous robotics team in the country. In their rookie season, the all-female team placed third only to China and Russia in the RoboSub competition in San Diego in August." Read more... First Human–AI–Robot Teaming workshop session at AHFE international conference [July 26, 2019]7/26/2019 Seven presenters all showed up. They were from Arizona State University, Taxes A & M University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Santa Barbara, and Soar Technology, Inc. Nancy and I were co-chairs, and Jessie Chen was the track chair. The diverse topics complemented each other from related but different perspectives: human factors, robotics, simulation, policies, healthcare, UAV, disaster robotics, search and rescue. The session was finished on time and was very well received by the audience.
In the past nine months, I have heard Prof. Nancy Cooke's speech at lab meetings, capstone classes, special lab tours, invited talks at hosting organizations, and conferences. The talks have one common thing, that is research on team dynamics, team cognition, and team interactions. Nancy is considered the top researcher in teaming research in human factors, and now on Human-AI-Robot Teaming. On all these talks, I repeatedly heard an example of a great team in the movie Miracle (2004) based on a true story: Herb Brooks and 20 young “no-names” won the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal in Ice Hockey. An expert team made up of no-names…
I finally got the chance to watch it tonight. Wow! It was just wow! Great story, great characteristics, great teamwork, great team chemistry...It is definitely a great example of excellent teamwork that beat a group of all-star individuals on a team. There is definitely some serious team science in it. I wish my vocabulary were better to describe what a great movie it is. I was curious about how the director was even able to shoot such a movie. It was exciting, encouraging, touching, and inspiring. It opened up my eyes to see a bigger picture of the research I am doing and the everyday life I am living. Upon seeing the movie and thoughts about the stage of my life these days, it gets clearer that great things are waiting for me to explore and take my contribution. Back to the point, it is a great movie to watch. Highly recommended. Prof. Camille Peres and Prof. Farzan Sasangohar invited Prof. Nancy Cooke to visit Taxes A & M university on May 8th and 9th. Mustafa Demir (postdoc), Chris Lieber (graduate student), and I were fortunate to get to travel with Nancy. Camille and Farzan arranged a wonderful trip itinerary for us for two full days of events. The tornado just made the whole trip an unforgettable adventure. We almost did not make it. The storm in Houston airport canceled our original flight from PHX, and postponed the alternate PHX fight for 5 hours. When we were waiting in the airport without knowing whether we were able to take off that night, we were on the edge of cancelling the trip because if we miss the main events early next morning on the itinerary. The point of the trip would be greatly discounted. Disaster City: A disaster simulation city with various firefighting training facility and earth quake search and rescue facility.
Thanks to Dr. Joel Suss' invitation. He was a volunteer mentor I met at the mentor-mentee luncheon at HFES 2017 when I was a postdoc at Duke.
This group consists of about 15 delegates from private companies, universities, research clusters and municipalities from Trollhättan (Sweden West Coast). The roles covered in the group range from PhDs, Project Managers and engineers in the AV field. The conversation was fruitful about many possible collaboration opportunities.
More information about ASU research can be found here:
https://research.asu.edu/about-us/facts-figures CHART Poster Presented at the Human-Machine Teaming Forum at MIT Lincoln Lab [Nov. 8th, 2018]11/8/2018 Nancy is giving an introduction. NASA Data Fusion Project MineCraft Project: Human-Robot Teaming on a search and rescue task Synthetic Teammate Project Cyber Deception Project
I seldom visit the Tempe campus, so I take the opportunities of meetings to get more familiar with this campus. The grand buildings are creative and beautiful.
HFES2018 conference at Philadelphia, PA. Presenting concluded last week. Learning new trends/methods, and networking are always the top three businesses at conferences.
I gave a talk on "Preliminary Analysis and Simulation of Railroad Dispatcher Workload". Surprisingly, the paper received the Best Paper Award at the Human Performance Modeling technical group. Thanks to coauthors Dr. Cummings, Victoria Nneji, and other contributors. Several people came to me after the talk, saying there has not been much literature on railroad dispatchers. There is definitely potential along this line of research. I will be an Assistant Research Scientist at Arizona State University starting in September 2018, in the Center for Humans, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot teaming, affiliated with the office of Global Security Initiative. I will work with Drs. Nancy Cooke and Spring Berman. My primary roles will be writing research grants and conducting experiments on the research platforms with human subjects. It is an interdisciplinary team and bears many great opportunities for human factors and human-robot interaction research.
I have stayed in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina for 7 years and this has become my second hometown. Thanks to my host family, friends, colleagues, and professors for all the support and care along my journey. The Pedestrian App experiment is finished, and our team celebrated at the Duke University Commons, right next to the Duke Chapel. It was the most challenging research project that I have ever conducted as of this point of my life. When I have time, I will write more about the journey.
==== The experiment was conducted at the North Carolina Center for Automotive Research NCCAR (NCCAR) in Garysburg, NC, two hours away from Duke University. This professional race track facility enables us to control the traffic conditions without any random passing cars or pedestrians. To use this facility, we had to work with the availability of the track. Our data collection team had 8 people and all need to be available the whole time. We also need to check the availability of participants. It was not worth the cost to make the trip with less than three participants signing up for each day. We cannot collect data when the weather was rainy or two windy. Because the experiment site was so far away from our lab, we first tried to recruit participants from the local community by sending hundreds of recruitment letters to nearby organizations, including churches, grocery stores, police department, fire department, community colleges, etc. However, we had a very low response from people. With the permission from Walmart managers, our team spent two evenings talking to random customers about our research inside the store and at the entrance of the store. We had some luck getting people from Walmart, but that was still not enough. Then we were suggested to recruit participants from Duke University. Due to the long distance, we offered rides to participants. They had to leave with us at 7 am or 8 am in the morning and return around 7 pm in the evening. The compensation was $25. We had to have at least three participants on one day to make the trip. We asked our friends to spread the word. Surprisingly, we got some participants from NC State and UNC Chapel Hill. In other words, the project involved three universities, with participants from four distant cities with a relatively low compensation. On the night before the last day of data collection, we had great difficulty finding the third participant to make the trip the next day. I had to make a decision whether to cancel the trip and reschedule the two people who has already signed up. Right before we gave up, someone agreed to go. On the next morning, when I was driving to the experiment site, another driver called me that one of the students changed his mind and did not want to go that morning, meaning we would need to make one more trip to just collect data for one extra person. Luckily, the director of NCCAR, Sam, helped us find another person to make up the vacancy so that we finished the data collection that day. Other incidents and difficulties also happened during the experiment.
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