Description: This volume illuminates the challenges and solutions for military HRI and so provides a better understanding of this complex concept. It enables scientists investigating military HRI issues to present their results within a single volume. Issues range from operators interacting with small ground robots and aerial vehicles to supervising large, near-autonomous vehicles capable of intelligent battlefield behaviors. The book's focus is the ability of the human to 'team' with intelligent unmanned systems in such environments.
Review Quotes: 'This book is remarkable because it covers a variety of topics including fundamentals of human-robot interaction and research in ground and aerial platforms as well as cross platform. It provides a deep understanding of cognitive and social perspectives of human-robot teaming as well as strengths and limits of the two components: human and machine. Reviews on adaptive automation, telepresence, and multimodal interface technologies offer solutions to many issues in human-robot interaction: improving situation awareness and human-robot ratio as well as reducing soldier workload. Experience gained and lessons learned from both simulation and field studies provide insights of interaction issues associated with uninhabited systems: teaming, coordination, communication, asset management, and system performance. This volume is a must read for all researchers and developers concerned with human-robot teaming in military domain.' Ming Hou, Defence Research & Development, Canada 'Surprisingly, the more robots can do on their own, the more important becomes the ability to coordinate those activities with other people and groups. Barnes and Jentsch have assembled a comprehensive treatment of the latest data, concepts and interfaces needed to coordinate people and robots in demanding dynamic and uncertain situations.' David Woods, Ohio State University, USA '...gives an insight into how ergonomics scientists are approaching questions in HRI, in conceptualising the problems, running experiments and exploring solutions. The book will thus be a useful addition to libraries in human factors.' Australian Defence Force Journal, Issue No. 192, 2013