Presentations

Adapting the Transparency of Autonomous Systems to Maximise Human-Autonomy Teaming.

Project update. Assisting humans with the use of automated recommendation systems by improving the transparency of the automation. This can be done by providing rationales, explanations, future predictions, and uncertainty estimates. Determine if general principles can be derived from the uninhabited vehicle context.

Targeting the Gut Microbiome to Enhance the Health, Performance and Resilience of the Australian Warfighter. 

Project update. Stress can negatively impact the gut microbiome and affect gut health. What are the factors that affect cognitive and physical function and what changes occur in the microbiome as a result of military stress?

Trusted human-autonomy teaming in teleoperations.

Project update. Adaptive autonomous systems that work in high intensity, time-critical environments. Realtime human performance monitoring and feedback. Allocation of tasks between humans and autonomous systems.

Improving Warfighter Situation Awareness: Selection, training and intervention strategies to increase battlefield performance & survivability.

Project update. Improving cognitive preparation and augmenting cognitive performance. Identify key cognitive processess associated with performance and situation awareness. Cognitive performance enhancement. Relationship between individual differences and human-automation multitasking.

An integrated approach to enhancing cognition and decision-making under stress.

Project update. Fatigue, physical resilience and endurance, and understanding the effects of different types of stress on both physical and cognitive performance.

Cognitive augmentation via training and brain stimulation: Predicting and optimising outcomes. 

Project update. Enhancing cognitive capacity (attention, memory, multi-tasking, cognitive control) using transcranial direct current brain stimulation paired with cognitive training. Predicting who is most likely to benefit from these interventions.

Enhancing human performance in complex environments.

Project update. Mindfulness training. Individualised training for peak performance and monitoring of cognitive load. Virtual reality (VR) environments with tailored combat scenario experiences and cognitive training. Mobile VR training experiences.

Predicting and Improving Team Performance by Incorporating an Autonomous Advisory System. 

Project update. About to start work on autonomous advisory system for detecting cognitive load. Use of wearable and environmental sensors with machine learning to determine cognitive load. Advice provided on how tasks can be redistributed in real time.

Improving performance in the heat: Developing tools for the prediction of heat resilience in humans. 

Project update. Measurement of heat tolerance and heat stress in humans, with use of imaging meaures. Understand the variables associated with heat tolerance, and ways to idenfiy personnel at risk of heat injury. Strategies to improve heat resilience in military personnel.