Human-Agent Teamwork
NOTES FROM CLASS, NEEDS EDIT:
Important aspect of Team work:
Joint Activity
Interpredictability
- Ability to predict what others will do
- Not just actions, but the coordination itself
- The suitcase example
Common ground
- Mutual knowledge, beliefs, and other skills and capabilities
Directablity
- Modify the actions when conditions change
- Respectiveness of each participants
Theory of mind
Humans are inclined to ascribe agency characteristics, like intentions to (self-)moving objects. A theory of mind helps to improve the social world, i.e. it helps to understand, explain, predict or manipulate others' behavior.
Shared mental model
Knowledge shared by team members. It is used to describe, explain and predict team behavior and allows team members to coordinate with each other.
Types of knowledge to share
- Task-related vs Team-related knowledge
- Facts vs Intentions
Different team structures
- Teams with key members (managers, that know more than others)
2. Teams with subteams (each responsible for their own task)
3. Teams with changing team members (where it is important to avoid loss of knowledge)
We are a team with key members because key members in our team know more about the project. Actually, it is a good team structure because it is better to have someone who knows the whole project and divides tasks for other team members.
How much is the XWiki helpful? Who is responsible for updating the XWiki?
XWiki is really helpful because we could know what others are doing and the process of the project. In our team, we are responsible for updating different parts of XWiki.
We should face a transactive memory system (TMS)that is distributed across different team members
Comment about situation awareness:
- what each person should be mainly focused on. What
THIS ALL SUMS UP TO A *SHARED MENTAL MODEL*
-> TASK MANAGEMENT:
- Coordination
- uncertainty ( we deal with it in the project by going into a "not understand loop" in case Pepper didn't understand.