Improving Human-Agent Team Performance through Audio-Visualized Communication
Keywords:
Human-Agent Teams, Team Performance, Audio-Visual Interactive Skills, BDI Agents, JasonSynopsis
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Book:
Smart and Sustainable Applications
Print ISBN 978-1-6692-0006-2
Online ISBN 978-1-6692-0005-5
Series:
Chronicle of Computing
Chapter Abstract:
In this paper, we deal with human-agent teams involving software agents and human agents collaborating to resolve a common problem. We propose experimenting the impact of integrating audio-visual interactive skills on the team performance: vocal communication act is integrated in the autonomous agent so that it can explain its behavior to human using voice as a communication channel; visual communication act is modeled to allow humans to track software agents’ movement in the environment. We carry out a series of tests using the testbed BW4T (Block World for Teams) to highlight the evolution of agents’ communication with new interactive capabilities partly adapted from DEFACTO(Demonstrating Effective Flexible Agent Coordination of Teams through Omnipresence) experiment . We propose implementing that experiment in Jason platform well adapted to develop such very complex systems where BDI (Believe Desire Intention) agents need to interact in complex ways with humans and/or with each other. The result is a significant improvement in team performance assessed through the completion of the joint task due to a better understanding of the overall situation of the task workflow.
Keywords:
Human-agent teams, team performance, audio-visual interactive skills, BDI agents, Jason.
Cite this paper as:
Laraba H., Mavunga, P.J., and Baradza J. (2024) Improving Human-Agent Team Performance through Audio-Visualized Communication. In: Tiako P.F. (ed) Smart and Sustainable Applications. Chronicle of Computing. OkIP. https://doi.org/10.55432/978-1-6692-0005-5_11
Accepted for:
The 2023 OkIP International Conference on Automated and Intelligent Systems (CAIS) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, and Online, on October 2-5, 2023
Contact:
Habib Laraba
habib.laraba@univ-constantine2.dz
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