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到社会背景的影响。该项目将在虚拟环境中使用觅食范例，其中人类参与者需要尽快收集目标，该项目将调查、描述和建模人们如何独自探索复杂的环境以及作为团队的一部分工作时。该奖学金提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，可以为我们理解探索行为背后的认知过程做出关键的理论贡献，并通过合作伙伴美国 DEVCOM 陆军研究实验室看到他们的研究的应用。该项目将为学生提供丰富的学术和行业研究经验，特别适合那些希望在应用研究环境中工作或与应用研究环境合作发展职业生涯的学生。该项目的目的是调查、描述和建模人们如何独自探索复杂的环境，以及当他们作为团队的一部分工作时。我们将使用一个觅食任务，将参与者放置在虚拟环境中，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）视觉觅食范式模型，在该项目期间，我们将把本研究的方法与社会探索实验结果相结合。该项目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，从而以一种与军事背景下的人类代理团队高度相关的方式提供了人类在此任务中行为的全面表征，其中团队合作、威胁的存在和使用“平视显示器”(HUD) 作为导航辅助设备的情况很常见。1) 当参与者协作或竞争完成任务时，虚拟觅食任务中的行为会如何变化？ 2) 外部“威胁”的存在如何影响行为？ 3) 使用导航设备对行为有何影响？