Collaborative research: IRES Track I: US-German Research on Human-Automation Interaction for the Future of Work

自动化系统已经存在了几十年。然而，今天，基于计算机的自动化应用程序和设备比以前更大程度地融入了我们的专业和个人日常生活。我们的目标是为未来的工作设计人机交互，这是直观的，并促进安全，透明，尊严和信任。要做到这一点，我们既需要科学和技术的进步，也需要一支了解未来工作挑战和机遇的劳动力队伍。我们的IRES学生将帮助发展科学和技术，并通过他们与我们的德国同事的互动，他们将在工作的未来领域的思想领袖的培训，帮助我们创造美国的劳动力，将解决工作的新未来的问题。每年夏天，六名学生参与者将在德国的研究实验室进行为期两个月的研究，这些研究实验室由该领域的思想领袖领导。该赠款将通过促进黑人，土著和有色人种，特别是女性的参与来支持STEM学科的包容性卓越。我们的目标是为未来的工作设计人机交互，这是直观的，并促进安全，透明，尊严和信任。 拟议工作的智力价值将是在四个领域中人类与自动化交互的进步。首先，我们的工作将阐明在某些工作环境下，包括在自动驾驶汽车和在家工作时，我们应该如何在人类和自动化代理之间分配任务。其次，我们将进一步了解如何为工作相关的任务创建人机交互，其中工人在适当的水平上建立信任。第三，我们将确定人类与自动化交互在不同工作环境中支持工人注意力的方式，包括自动化车辆和在家工作。第四，我们将扩大我们对新技术如何支持工作的理解，更重要的是，也是福祉。我们的技术重点领域将包括语音、增强现实和虚拟现实以及有形界面。虽然这些技术已经存在，我们将探索如何在工作环境中广泛使用它们，以支持广泛的任务。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）的学生国际研究经验计划和刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Automated systems have been around for decades. However today, computer-based automated apps and devices are woven into our professional and personal daily lives to a greater extent than before. Our goal is to design human-automation interactions for the future of work, which are intuitive, and promote safety, transparency, dignity, and trust. To do this, we need both scientific and technological advancements, as well as a workforce that understands the challenges and opportunities of the future of work. Our IRES students will help develop the science and technology, and through their interactions with our German colleagues, they will be trained by thought leaders in the field of the future of work, helping us create the US workforce that will tackle the problems of the new future of work. Each summer six student participants will conduct research for two months on this topic in Germany in research labs led by thought leaders in the field. The grant will support inclusive excellence in STEM disciplines by promoting the participation of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and in particular women.Our goal is to design human-automation interactions for the future of work, which are intuitive, and promote safety, transparency, dignity, and trust. The intellectual merit of the proposed work will be the advances in human-automation interaction in four areas. First, our work will shed light on how we should allocate tasks between human and automated agents under certain work contexts, including in automated vehicles and when working from home. Second, we will improve our understanding of how to create human-automation interaction for work-related tasks where workers develop trust at the appropriate level. Third, we will identify ways in which human-automation interaction can support worker attention in different work contexts, including automated vehicles and work from home. Fourth, we will expand our understanding of how novel technologies can support work, and importantly also wellbeing. Our technology focus areas will include speech, augmented reality and virtual reality, and tangible interfaces. While these technologies are already available, we will explore how they could be widely used in work settings to support a broad range of tasks.This project is jointly funded by the International Research Experience for Students program in the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.