Research on Design of Artifacts with Co-Adaptive Functions through Analysis of Human-Machine Interactions

人类和计算机子系统的结构和设计应该以相互协作的方式工作，保证用户的可用性。为此，需要在人机交互方面进行渐进式系统重新设计，通过增加人机交互，特别是人类用户的主动参与来提高系统的可靠性和透明度，而不是将人类排除在循环之外。这种以社会为中心的人机系统设计观，将人与自动代理视为对等的伙伴，通过混合主动的交互，将产生一些新的相互依赖和互惠关系，并期望角色扮演的灵活变化。在考察了传统的以技术为中心的自动化在各个领域所带来的问题之后，我们强调了一个事实，即真正需要一个社会性的概念来形成理想的人-自动化关系，并让他们从亲密的互动中产生。为了实现这种新型的人机关系，我们提出了一种新的思想，称为协同适应设计原则，这意味着人类用户和机器都应该能够通过体验他们之间发生的交互来适应对方。我们将这个想法应用到各种人工制品设计中；界面代理、机器人远程操作、人机协作系统、社交机器人、多智能体系统、知识管理。

Human and computer subsystems should be structured and designed to work in mutually cooperating ways guaranteeing a user's usability. For this purpose, progressive system redesigns are needed with respect to human computer interactions to increase system reliability and transparency by increasing human-system interactions and especially a human user's proactive participation, rather than by eliminating the human out of the loop. Such a socially-centered view on the human-machine system design regards a human and an automated agent as equivalent partners, and through their mixed-initiative interactions some novel relations of mutual dependency and reciprocity would emerge as well as flexible changes of role-taking are expected. After surveying the problems incurred by the conventional technology-centered automation in a variety of fields, we put an emphasis on the fact that a concept of sociality is really needed to form the ideal relations of human-automation and to let them emerge out of intimate interactions. To realize such a kind of new style of human-machine relationships, we develop a new idea called co-adaptive design principle, which means that both a human user and a machine should be able to adapt to the other through experiencing the interactions occurring between them. We applied this idea to a variety of artifacts design; interface agent, robot tele-operation, human-agent collaborative systems, social robot, multi-agent system, and knowledge management.