AI researcher speaks on teamwork with autonomous systems
Josh Strauss, a doctoral candidate in the University of Maryland’s Social, Decision, and Organizational Science program through the Psychology Department, gave a talk on March 15 about the effect of a gamified task platform on team behavior and coordination.
Strauss used dynamic distributed decisionmaking software to create a cooperative video game that enabled him to measure team culture by coding aspects of team behavior during the game. He also had people play a game in a team with both other humans and AI players.
“Do team members trust AI more or less depending on reciprocity and predictability, which are both things the literature says underlie trust-forming in human teams?” Strauss asked.
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