A Human View Dynamics Model for Regaining and Relinquishing Control

The Human Viewpoint was developed in 2007 as an additional perspective to augment existing architecture frameworks. The goal of the Human Viewpoint is to provide an integrated framework that includes the impact of human operators on the system design and resulting performance. However, the Human Viewpoint can be expanded to capture the increasing role of non-human agents as well, for example the pairing of manned and unmanned technologies. The level of involvement of the human operator with the virtual team member may vary, in some cases, the human operator performs supervisory tasks, in other cases humans are still involved in direct system control. This paper illustrates the use of the Human Viewpoint to describe an application of manned-unmanned teaming; it uses the Human View Dynamics model to illustrate the concepts of relinquishing and regaining control between a human and non-human team member. A transition graph is developed based on concepts of organizational adaption to show allowable states for redistribution of tasks across all agent types.