HART 2016 - The 6th Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop

The HART 2016 workshop provides an international forum for researchers interested in cooperative activities aka teamwork, applied to joint human-agent/robot activities or human-agent/robot interaction addressing the challenges of future teamwork scenarios that are more complex and incorporate agent, robots and humans in a closed loop.
Teamwork has become a widely accepted metaphor for describing the nature of multi-robot and multi-agent cooperation. By virtue of teamwork models, team members attempt to manage general responsibilities and commitments to each other in a coherent fashion that both enhances performance and facilitates recovery when unanticipated problems arise. Whereas early research on teamwork focused mainly on interaction within groups of autonomous agents or robots, there is a growing interest in leveraging human participation effectively. Unlike autonomous systems designed primarily to take humans out of the loop, many important applications require people, agents, and robots to work together in close and relatively continuous interaction. For software agents and robots to participate in teamwork alongside people in carrying out complex real-world tasks, they must have some of the capabilities that enable natural and effective teamwork among groups of people. Just as important, developers of such systems need tools and methodologies to assure that such systems will work together reliably and safely, even when they have been designed independently.
The purpose of the HART workshop is to explore theories, methods, and tools in support of humans, agents and robots working together in teams. Position papers that combine findings from fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, anthropology, social and organizational psychology, human-computer interaction to address the problem of HART are strongly encouraged. The workshop will formulate perspectives on the current state-of-the-art, identify key challenges and opportunities for future studies, and promote community-building among researchers and practitioners.
Scope
Topics of Interest
The workshop solicits contributions addressing original research on joint human-agent-robot activities, human-agent-robot teamwork, and human-aware planning. The workshops topics are related to systems of humans and agents (including robots) in cooperative settings. Thus, the topics of interest cover a variety of fields and expertises, for example:
Models of human behaviour and their application to teamwork,
Collaborative planning and cooperative agent-human systems,
Human-agent teamwork theories, models, tools, and frameworks,
Human-aware motion, navigation, task planning,
Applications on human-robot/agent interaction, and
Studies on practicial joint human-agent-robot activities.
We welcome submissions that cover theoretical results, methodological contributions, or practical results illustrating human-agent-robot teamwork applications in the wild (lab, online, real-world).
Target Audience
No special prerequisites are demanded. However, participation in the workshop will be limited, with authors and presenters given priority. All attendees must register for the MATES 2016 conference. This emerging field is inherently inter-disciplinary, thus the workshop brings together researchers from computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, anthropology, social and organizational psychology, human-computer interaction.