The Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnerships (CAHMP) held a HCI group meeting on December 8th, 22. About a dozen participants from CEC and CHSS joined this hybrid (on-line and in-person) meeting. This event was a follow-up on the June HCI workshop, which signaled the beginning of a new stage in interdisciplinary research and community building around HCI at Mason. The HCI group is one of several community-building initiatives at CAHMP to foster faculty collaborations and meaningful outreaches with industry partners.
At this meeting, two Army Research Laboratory (ARL) HCI researchers, Dr. Alfred Yu and Dr. Katherine Cox, joined the group online and debriefed on ARL’s recent HCI related initiatives, including the Cross-Mission Team Evolution (CMTE) Research Thrust within the ARL Human Autonomy Teaming Essential Research Program (HAT ERP) which is developing capabilities to improve Soldier-system team performance in missions through adaptation and learning via after-action review and mission planning. Many other ARL research focuses, including the development of wearables for real-world assessment of warfighter performance, data mining of large behavioral datasets to understand real-world visual search, augmented perception in extended reality, and computational modeling of the biophysical mechanisms of neurostimulation, find overlaps with the current research and work by CAHMP faculty members.
The meeting wrapped up with a plan to continue engage ARL for future collaborations. Participants also exchanged some insightful thoughts on upcoming HCI funding opportunities.