CSEL students presented their work at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting ASPIRE’24 in Phoenix, AZ.
Sal(PhD ISE ’28) presented a lecture on functional modeling using Network Mathematics to better understand how coordination demands are created and managed in human-machine teams. This model will be used to better inform how human-machine teams are designed for use in unstructured domains such as disaster response robotics, which will allow these teams to have a greater impact when deployed. This model takes coordination demands into explicit considerations when evaluating these teaming configurations, which is not typically modeled in traditional approaches. By explicitly modeling human coordination needs with robots, a better understanding of how these systems work is realized. The full conference paper can be found here.
Abhi(PhD ISE ’24) demonstrated the computational modeling and simulation approach that can help designers and engineers better envision the system. The demonstration provided details on how to apply the technique and some insights into the specifics of the technique. This technique works on the principle that understanding emergence caused by the interactions of work, work environment, and agents helps better understand the feasibility and robustness of the system. By explicitly modeling work and its relation to work dynamics, the method can reveal underlying interactions. The full conference paper can be found here.
Over the last year, the team developed a Information Visualization plugin for BlueSky, an open-source air traffic simulator. Along with software development, the team used the software to collect empirical evidence showing the challenge of monitoring multiple self-flying aircrafts. Their presentation detailed how their software can be used to support next generation aviation operations, specifically for enabling safe and efficient human machine teaming. The full conference paper can be found 
It focuses on the ability to project ahead accurately given the cues available in the design over time and look back to that design to make sense of what has happened. This diagram can be used for future systems looking at where additional support for the human needs to be designed into the system and for analysis of previous events to see why the design did not support the human and how the design needs to be improved.
With the help of Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students Izzy Furl (’24) and Luke McSherry(’24), the team is building out information visualization requirements for future Advanced Air Mobility command and control coordinators. The visualizations will be tested in a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulation to determine information design’s role in affecting future operators’ cognitive work.
Abhinay Paladugu