Print Email Facebook Twitter Coactive Design: Designing Support for Interdependence in Joint Activity Title Coactive Design: Designing Support for Interdependence in Joint Activity Author Johnson, M. Bradshaw, J.M. Feltovich, P.J. Jonker, C.M. Van Riemsdijk, M.B. Sierhuis, M. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Intelligent Systems Date 2014-01-01 Abstract Coactive Design is a new approach to address the increasingly sophisticated roles that people and robots play as the use of robots expands into new, complex domains. The approach is motivated by the desire for robots to perform less like teleoperated tools or independent automatons and more like interdependent teammates. In this article, we describe what it means to be interdependent, why this is important, and the design implications that follow from this perspective. We argue for a human-robot system model that supports interdependence through careful attention to requirements for observability, predictability, and directability. We present a Coactive Design method and show how it can be a useful approach for developers trying to understand how to translate high-level teamwork concepts into reusable control algorithms, interface elements, and behaviors that enable robots to fulfill their envisioned role as teammates. As an example of the coactive design approach, we present our results from the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge, a competition designed to spur development of advanced robots that can assist humans in recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Twenty-six teams from eight countries competed in three different tasks providing an excellent evaluation of the relative effectiveness of different approaches to human-machine system design. Subject coactive designjoint activityteamworkcollaborationinterdependencehuman-robot interactionhuman-agent-robot teamwork To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35cfe91a-bd59-427d-89a9-e2019f9b0c28 ISSN 2163-0364 Source https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.3.1.Johnson Source Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 3 (1), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s)CC BY - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Files PDF Jonker_2014.pdf 11.83 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:35cfe91a-bd59-427d-89a9-e2019f9b0c28/datastream/OBJ/view