Human Team Collaboration

U.S. Army Scientists Improve Human-Agent Teaming by Making AI Agents More Transparent
ARL News

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have developed ways to improve collaboration between humans and artificially intelligent agents. The researchers say they have enhanced agent transparency, which refers to a robot, unmanned vehicle, or software agent's ability to communicate to humans its intent, performance, future plans, and reasoning process. In 2016, the U.S. Defense Science Board identified six barriers to human trust in autonomous systems, including low observability, predictability, directability, and low mutual understanding of common goals. The ARL researchers addressed these issues by developing the Situation awareness-based Agent Transparency (SAT) model, and measured its efficacy on human-agent team performance in human factors studies. One project, IMPACT, focused on examining the effects of levels of agent transparency, based on the SAT model, on human operators' decision-making. Meanwhile, the Autonomous Squad Member project involved a small ground robot interacting and communicating with an infantry squad  .... " 

On Team Productivity

Microsoft acquires the company Intentional that's about software team productivity.  Likely with interaction with Skype and the acquired Linkedin?

Building an All-Star Team

In the HBR:  by Michael C. Mankins  Though our typical view of being 'all star', is often skewed by many existing operational agendas , which is why this is hard to do in the enterprise.

SearchTeam Emerges

I have seen some fascinating early versions of SearchTeam, the real-time collaborative search engine from Zakta..  A great idea, think of it for collaborative use in a number of situations.   Say you are researching a new innovation, a technology detail, a competitive intelligence problem.  With an eye to later curating and understanding your results.  And of course you are always collaborating with users as you find, check and  document search results. We often saw that need in the enterprise.  It reminds me of the functionality in Vannevar Bush's proposed Memex system.  Nicely done.

Now it is here.   I have been testing it for some time in early forms, and it is very useful to do searches, share the results, and deliver value in ways it was cumbersome to do before.
See their concept video and a guided tour.


SearchTeam, in a nutshell:

SearchTeam enables trusted people to search the Web together, curating their search results, their thoughts and opinions, as well as relevant documents on a given topic, in one place (a SearchSpace).

Other Related Resources:

SearchTeam blog: http://blog.searchteam.com/
SearchTeam on Twitter: @SearchTeamNews / http://twitter.com/SearchTeamNews
SearchTeam on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SearchTeam/174952665849873

Contact information:

Via Sundar Kadayam, Founder and CEO, Zakta
Email: skadayam@zaktallc.com          
Personal Blog: The Sharer - http://kadayam.com/
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarkadayam