Call for Book Chapter Proposals
Advancements in Human Agent Teaming Research Infrastructure: Testbeds, Metrics, and Concepts
Optional abstracts due: May 21, 2025
Chapter submissions due: July 23, 2025
Editors: Erin K. Chiou, Douglas S. Lange, Jason H. Wong, Julie Marble
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
Book concept: In 2020, the National Academies Board on Human-Systems Integration was tasked by the Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing to identify research objectives for realizing effective human-AI teams in complex operational environments. The resulting 130-page report written by an 11-person committee and downloaded globally over 9,800 times as of this writing, identifies 57 objectives. Shortly thereafter, a different group of 23 U.S.-based researchers in defense operations, machine learning, and human factors independently gathered to further narrow the set of research areas to address. This book is a continuation of that gathering, which identified a need to coordinate and compile testbed research infrastructure and related use cases that have advanced or that promise to advance successful human-AI teams. This edited volume brings together technologists and researchers working to support critical and dynamic decision-making in complex work environments. Each chapter will focus on a central topic area regarding how specific human-AI research testbeds, team performance metrics or measures, and/or human factors concepts have advanced operational human-AI teams, and the underlying questions that persist.
Solicitation: We are seeking manuscripts from any domain that describe the work of designing, building, implementing, or evaluating a human-AI team testbed, metric, or concept. While all three areas should be integrated to some extent, the idea is that individual chapters will approach this emphasizing one of the three areas. Questions that would be helpful to address: Why was this testbed needed? Why were you the ones to do it? What required thoughtful consideration and what tradeoffs were required? Did your project distinguish between metrics and measures? What metrics did you refine or refute as a result of your work? What concepts did you include (e.g., trust, situation awareness) and how did you indicate the presence of that concept? What has been the impact of this work?
To help promote rigor and cohesion, full chapter contributors (lead authors or designated co-authors) undergoing review will also be asked to peer-review (single-blind) no more than two total submissions.
Questions and initial proposal submissions can be directed to Dr. Erin K. Chiou, erin.chiou@asu.edu.
For more information about this solicitation, see the attachment, or visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woSOrzqtzV2J4MGKWAobPh73zVBw9o7vXfnqed4yTbM/edit?usp=sharing.
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Erin Chiou
Associate Professor
erin.chiou@asu.edu
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