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HCAAM: Conversation analysis to measure and manage trust in virtual assistants

Last Published: 04/20/22 11:43:24 AM (Central)

Task Book: Entry
Principal Investigator: Lee, John

Short Title: Conversation Trust Analysis

Responsible HRP Element: Human Factors and Behavioral Performance

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Funding Status: Active - Currently funded and in progress

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

Aims:

This task is part of the Human Capabilities Assessments for Autonomous Missions (HCAAM) Virtual NASA Specialized Center of Research (VNSCOR) deliverable. This task aims to create conversational measures and mechanisms that allow virtual agents to use an unobtrusive approach to determine if a user is over/under trusting and mitigate this miss calibration with corrective actions and indications within the conversation.

Aim 1: Develop real-time conversational indicators of trust.
- TOCA aid (Total Organic Carbon Analyze)—As a prototypical virtual assistant
- Develop conversational indicators of trust from the AMO TOCA study data
- Develop and validate TOCA as a microworld testbed
Aim 2: Assess robustness of real-time conversational indicators of trust under long duration mission stresses.
- Data collected in a manner that mirrors the experiment from Aim 1 that used the TOCA microworld
Aim 3: Develop and evaluate conversational affordances for managing trust. Similar to Aim 1, this evaluation will be a ground-based study using participants from University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA JSC who will work with an intelligent virtual agent in the TOCA microworld.
- Validation in the HERA environment
- Develop principles and guidelines for trust measurement and calibration

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Deliverables (1)

Category: Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory: Evidence or Risk Characterization

Description:

The outcomes of this research will promote more effective interactions and acceptance of virtual assistants, and will provide new analytic techniques for understanding how people work with automated agents as team members. Three advances for trustable technology require the development of new analytic techniques for understanding human interaction with automated teammates.

Deliverables include:

Interim definition phase progress report
Develop and document principles and guidelines for trust measurement and calibration
Paper and tool for trust estimation
TOCA testbed
Final report with guidelines and standards on trust and technology

Internal Customers:
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance
External Customers:
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HCAAM: Conversation analysis to measure and manage trust in virtual assistants

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Number of Subjects	16

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	Risk of Adverse Outcomes Due to Inadequate Human Systems Integration Architecture
	HSIA-201: We need to evaluate the demands of future exploration habitat/vehicle systems and mission scenarios (e.g. increased automation, multi-modal communication) on individuals and teams, and determine the risks these demands pose to crew health and performance.