Human-Autonomy Teaming in a Flight Following Task

• Automation Transparency: The operator must understand the automation agent’s intent and reasoning, and be able to elicit additional factors on which the agent has based a recommendation for a course of action. Operators must be able to see what the agent is doing and, ideally, predict what the agent will do next. Transparency requires operator knowledge of the general logic of how the agent works and accurate mental models of its functioning [3]. At the same time, the autonomous agent must understand (to some extent) the current preferences, attitudes and states of human operators in the team. To be truly transparent, communication should use a shared language that matches the operator's mental model.