Computational modelling of team foraging to understand human behaviour and cognition

团队觅食的计算模型以了解人类行为和认知

• 批准号: 2887185
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Essex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887185
• 关键词: Computational; modelling; team; foraging; understand

This studentship will investigate spatial exploration and how it is affected by social context. Using a foraging paradigm in a virtual environment, where human participants need to gather targets as quickly as possible, the project will investigate, characterise, and model how people explore complex environments, both on their own and also when they work as part of a team. This studentship provides an exciting opportunity to make key theoretical contributions to our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying exploration behaviour, and to see applications of their research via the collaborative partner, the US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. The project will give the student a wealth of research experience both in an academic and an industry setting, and will be particularly suited to students who wish to develop their career working within or in collaboration with applied research settings.The aim of this project is to investigate, characterise and model how people explore complex environments, both on their own and also when they work as part of a team. We will use a foraging task in which participants are placed in a virtual environment and asked to collect as many targets as they can. The starting point for the project will be the recent Clarke et al. (2022) model of the visual foraging paradigm and during the project, we will integrate the methodology from this study with the social exploration experimental results.The project will aim to ask three main questions. These questions cover a range of different spatial exploration scenarios, thus offering a thorough characterisation of human behaviour in this task in a way that will be highly relevant for human-agent teams in the military context, where teamwork, the presence of threats and the use of 'Heads Up Displays' (HUDs) as navigational aids are all common.1) How does behaviour in a virtual foraging task change when participants are completing the task collaboratively or competitively? 2) How is behaviour affected by the presence of an out-group "threat"? 3) How is behaviour affected by the use of navigational aids?

该学生将研究空间探索及其如何受社会环境影响。在虚拟环境中使用觅食范式，在该环境中，人类参与者需要尽快收集目标，该项目将调查，表征和建模人们如何自行探索复杂的环境，以及当他们作为团队的一部分工作时。该学生提供了一个激动人心的机会，为我们对探索行为的认知过程的理解做出关键的理论贡献，并通过协作合作伙伴美国Devcom陆军研究实验室查看其研究的应用。该项目将在学术和行业环境中为学生带来丰富的研究经验，并特别适合希望发展自己的职业的学生，​​与应用研究环境合作或合作。该项目的目的是调查，表征和模拟人们如何探索复杂环境，包括自己以及当他们作为团队的一部分时。我们将使用一项觅食任务，其中参与者被置于虚拟环境中，并要求他们收集尽可能多的目标。该项目的起点将是最近的Clarke等人。 （2022）视觉觅食范式的模型以及在项目期间，我们将将这项研究的方法与社会探索实验结果整合在一起。该项目将旨在提出三个主要问题。这些问题涵盖了一系列不同的空间探索场景，因此在此任务中以与人类代理团队高度相关的方式在军事环境中非常相关，在军事环境中，团队合作，威胁的存在和“ heads up up显示”（hud up显示”（HUD）（HUD）（HUD）（HUD）作为导航的行为是有效的。 2）如何受到群体外“威胁”影响的行为？ 3）如何使用导航辅助工具影响行为？