Human-agent interaction in a target identification task

Due to the complex and dynamic nature of our world it is increasingly common for decisions to be made in teams rather than by individuals. Team members must exchange and fuse information and resources from a variety of sources to make effective decisions. While the variety of information and resources brought together by a team may be needed for complex, real-time decision making, members must be able to communicate and interpret one another´s communications to realize these benefits. In natural settings which are plagued by unreliable data and data sources, the difficulty of improving reliability through aggregation of data increases with available resources. Effective teams must develop a shared task language, shared perceptions of the task, and knowledge of one another and of the reliability of each other´s communications to derive full value from pooled resources. While our understanding of the informational dynamics of human teams remains incomplete, even less is known about teams combining human and software agents