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ABSTRACTCognitive coordination is the timely and adaptive sharing of information. Command and control, particularly on the network-centric battle space, requires extensive coordination among a group of cognitive entities. Our goal was to better understand cognitive coordination and the impact of communication mode on team performance and coordination, and to develop a synthetic teammate. We conducted team experiments, and developed and tested a synthetic agent in the context of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) ground control. An important objective of this was to closely match human behavior across several cognitive capacities, such as situation assessment, task behavior, and language comprehension and generation. We also conducted an experiment in the UAV synthetic task environment to examine the coordination of a three-person team that interacted via voice-or text-based communications. Results demonstrated how text communications affect coordination relative to the voice communications. We plan to incorporate the synthetic teammate into human teams for validation, beginning summer 2009.
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COGNITIVE COORDINATION ON THE NETWORK CENTRIC BATTLEFIELD
AbstractCognitive coordination is the timely and adaptive sharing of information. Command and control, particularly on the network-centric battle space, requires extensive coordination among a group of cognitive entities (humans and agents). The goal of the proposed research was to better understand cognitive coordination and the impact of mode of communication, presence of synthetic teammates, and training regime on team performance and coordination.We proposed a three-year effort to conduct two team experiments and to develop and test a synthetic agent in the context of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) ground control. This work was motivated by theory and empirical research in team cognition and cognitive modeling, much of it attri...