HAIDM 2012 - International Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models

HAIDM : Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models
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As the boundaries of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems continue to expand, there is an increasing need for agents to interact with humans. In fact, the field of multi-agent systems has matured from conceptual models to applications within the real-world (e.g., Engergy and sustainability, disaster management, or health care). One significant challenge that arises when transitioning these conceptual models to applications is addressing the inevitable human interaction. To this end, this workshop examines major challenges at the intersection of human-agent systems. The workshop will be divided into two key tracks in order to reflect the main research directions taken in the community, namely Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) and Modelling Agent Systems with Humans (MASH). While the former is takes a human-centric view of human-agent systems and focuses on the design of human-agent coordination mechanisms, trust issues in human-agent interaction, interaction techniques, and human activity recognition, the latter is concerned with finding better models of human behavior in a variety of settings so that autonomous and multi-agent systems can appropriately interact with human agents (e.g., agent-human negotiation strategies or health care agents encouraging physical therapy for a variety of recovering patients). Hence, this workshop aims to establish a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in designing and modeling human-agent interaction in different domains.