Paper Info
Title
The Future of Disaster Response: Humans Working with Multiagent Teams using DEFACTO
Abstract
When addressing terrorist threats we must give special at- tention to both prevention and disaster response. Enabling effective interactions between agent teams and humans for disaster response is a critical area of research, with encour- aging progress in the past few years. However, previous work suffers from two key limitations: (i) limited human sit- uational awareness, reducing human effectiveness in direct- ing agent teams and (ii) the agent team's rigid interaction strategies that limit team performance. This paper focuses on a novel disaster response software prototype, called DE- FACTO (Demonstrating Effective Flexible Agent Coordina- tion of Teams through Omnipresence). DEFACTO is based on a software proxy architecture and 3D visualization sys- tem, which addresses the two limitations described above. First, the 3D visualization interface enables human virtual omnipresence in the environment, improving human situa- tional awareness and ability to assist agents. Second, gen- eralizing past work on adjustable autonomy, the agent team chooses among a variety of "team-level" interaction strate- gies, even excluding humans from the loop in extreme cir- cumstances.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
AAAI Spring Symposium: AI Technologies for Homeland Security
situation awareness,3d visualization,homeland security
Field
DocType
Citations 
Omnipresence,Architecture,Visualization,Computer science,Situation awareness,Autonomy,Knowledge management,Software
Conference
29
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.76
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nathan Schurr118816.28
Janusz Marecki268549.06
Milind Tambe36008522.25
Paul Scerri482272.05
Nikhil Kasinadhuni5291.76
J. P. Lewis61936138.76