Clancey_2006abstr
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William
J. Clancey
NASA/Ames Research Center
Intelligent Systems Division MS269-3
Moffett Field, CA 94035
and
Florida Institute for Human and Machine
Cognition, Pensacola, FL
Maarten Sierhuis
USRA/RIACS
(NASA/Ames)
Richard L. Alena
NASA/Ames
Research Center
John Dowding
UC/Santa Cruz, CA (NASA/Ames)
Michael Scott and Ronnie van
Hoof
QSS Group, Inc. (NASA/Ames)
During the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station
(MDRS) Rotation 49 (April 23-May 7, 2006), we field tested and significantly
extended a prototype monitoring and advising system for the habitat crew that
integrates data from the MDRS power system. A distributed, wireless network of
functionally specialized agents interact with the crew to provide alerts,
access and interpret historical data (through voice command), and display
troubleshooting procedures. In practical application during two weeks, the
system generated speech over loudspeakers and headsets to alert the crew about
the need to investigate generator-inverter-battery problems that had not yet
come to their attention. This field test accomplished a milestone for the ÒCEV
Agent-Mediated Situational AwarenessÓ task in NASAÕs Exploration Technology
Development Program 12B, Human-Systems Interaction.