Title
Emergent patterns in agent-environment interactions and their roles in supporting agile spatial skills.
Abstract
This paper provides a review of the analysis and modeling of human spatial planning, perception, and learning based on the dynamics of agent-environment interactions. The approach stems from an analysis and modeling framework that was previously conceived using interaction patterns emerging from system-wide interactions as the basic unit of analysis. The paper first discusses the rationals for using patterns in agent-environment interactions as units of organization of behavior, and as functional units of the modeling framework. These concepts are then illustrated through two applications using experimental data from a first-person flight simulator that implements agile obstacle navigation tasks. The first application focuses on the analysis of the formation and evolution of interaction patterns over successive trials, and the use of these patterns as basic elements of the task environment representation, enabling the evaluation of the learning process and assessment of the operator performance. The second application focuses on the analysis of interaction patterns as functional units supporting the modeling of the underlying perceptual guidance and control mechanisms. These examples demonstrate the relevance of dynamics in agent-environment interactions for studying a wide range of functions across the human control hierarchy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.arcontrol.2017.09.001
Annual Reviews in Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human motor skills,Human performance modeling,Perceptual guidance,Perception-action,Action-cognition,Human motion planning
Obstacle,Unit of analysis,Experimental data,Spatial planning,Computer science,Control engineering,Agile software development,Human–computer interaction,Flight simulator,Artificial intelligence,Hierarchy,Perception
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
44
1367-5788
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bérénice Mettler1699.87
Abhishek Verma200.68
Andrew Feit321.07