Title
Beyond Cooperative Robotics: The Central Role of Interdependence in Coactive Design
Abstract
As automation becomes more sophisticated, the nature of its interaction with people will need to change in profound ways. Many approaches to designing more team-like cooperation between humans and machines have been proposed—most recently regrouped under the rubric of cooperative robotics. All these approaches rely on the concept of levels of autonomy as the benchmark for machine performance and the criterion for decisions about human-machine task allocation and the supervisory control regimen. This article argues that the levels of autonomy concept is incomplete and insufficient as a model for designing complex human-machine teams, largely because it does not sufficiently account for interdependence among their members. Building on a theory of joint activity, the authors introduce the notion of coactive design, an approach to human-machine interaction that takes interdependence as the central organizing principle among people and agents working together as a team.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/MIS.2011.47
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
autonomy concept,central organizing principle,supervisory control regimen,human-machine task allocation,profound way,cooperative robotics,beyond cooperative robotics,coactive design,central role,machine performance,complex human-machine team,joint activity,human robot interaction,collaboration,human computer interaction,intelligent systems,robotics
Organizing principle,Intelligent decision support system,Computer science,Autonomy,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Human–robot interaction,Robotics,Robot programming
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
3
1541-1672
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.83
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Johnson150335.75
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw21753176.50
Paul J. Feltovich3837222.16
Robert R. Hoffman4837133.72
Catholijn M. Jonker52252241.53
M. Birna van Riemsdijk671751.31
Maarten Sierhuis743243.85