{"639085":{"#nid":"639085","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Getting Along with AI: Creating Teams When Your Classmates and Colleagues Are Intelligent Machines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/jamie-gorman\u0022\u003EJamie Gorman\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;research involves the psychology of teamwork and how to get people in all kinds of industries working together in a better, more efficient manner.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis two latest projects seek to understand how to do that when one of those teammates or trainers is made of software, and the other team members are people: public school students and members of the U.S. Armed Forces.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGorman is starting by first identifying the opportunities and challenges that join students when artificial intelligence (AI) is invited into a classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It could tell you about student progress, and also help the teacher better orchestrate the classroom and keep track of things,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGorman, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, has won a $240,000, five-year\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E (NSF) subcontract to try to answer those questions at a new NSF-AI Institute, one of five centers the agency will set up at universities across the country to \u0026ldquo;accelerate research, expand America\u0026#39;s workforce, and transform society in the decades to come\u0026rdquo; through artificial intelligence, according to an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/announcements\/082620.jsp\u0022\u003ENSF press release\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGorman and an as-yet-unnamed Georgia Tech graduate student will be a part of the research team at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/ai-education\u0022\u003EUniversity of Colorado-Boulder\u003C\/a\u003E, the location of a forthcoming NSF-AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming. The NSF plans to spend $100 million to set up these institutes and accelerate AI research over the next five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe psychology of teamwork\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGorman and his team dynamics research have also won a six-month, $50,000 subcontract with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/aptima-inc.\u0022\u003EAptima Inc.\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.airforce.com\/\u0022\u003EU.S. Air Force\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a project that will try to improve training methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat project isn\u0026rsquo;t so much about AI as it is \u0026ldquo;about developing team measurement systems for the military for simulation-based training,\u0026rdquo; he shares. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s kind of a feeder project for a bigger follow-on, we hope,\u0026rdquo; that would focus on building team software for a variety of training applications. He plans on making the system capable of real-time, immediate feedback for trainees and evaluators.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe reason Gorman decided to study the psychology of teamwork, however, does play into the need to find out if AI can help in classrooms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we think about our everyday lives, there\u0026rsquo;s little we could do without working with other people,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;With respect to AI agents becoming more pervasive, we\u0026rsquo;re not that far out from when we\u0026rsquo;ll be working with those agents \u0026mdash; whether we\u0026rsquo;re conscious of it or not. So, because teamwork is ubiquitous, it\u0026rsquo;s an important challenge we need to embrace.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELike the Aptima project, Gorman\u0026rsquo;s work with AI in the classroom will involve setting up a system of measurements and metrics to determine if artificial intelligence can help students and teachers with education goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My research involves the measurement of team dynamics using neurophysiological measures and a variety of other human-machine interactions,\u0026rdquo; Gorman says. \u0026ldquo;My role on this is really to develop models and metrics for teamwork and team effectiveness in student-AI relationships.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF initiative at the University of Colorado-Boulder hopes to develop \u0026ldquo;groundbreaking AI that helps both students and teacher work and learn together more effectively, and equitably, while helping educators focus on what they do best: inspiring and teaching students. The vision is to develop engaging \u0026lsquo;AI partners\u0026rsquo; that will observe, participate in, and facilitate collaborative STEM learning conversations by interacting naturally through speech, gesture, gaze, and facial expression in real-world classrooms and remote learning settings.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOpportunities in an AI-influenced education\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat would AI look like in a classroom? A virtual team member could be an avatar on a computer screen, or a voice heard through a voice recognition service, asking questions and correcting answers, Gorman says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;How do we actually engineer the system to recognize gestures and communicate in a user-friendly way? There are more overt things like facial recognition that will be a part of this,\u0026rdquo; he explains. Other technologies, such as electroencephalograms, or EEGs, that measure brain activity, are becoming cheaper and could also be worked into the AI-human relationship, Gorman adds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESystems Psychology Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been focusing on team dynamics since 2016 \u0026mdash; and not just in an office or a classroom. \u0026ldquo;We study Double Dutch jump rope, for example. We\u0026rsquo;re just trying to make teamwork seamless, adaptive, and resilient. That\u0026rsquo;s what we\u0026rsquo;re focusing on, with what we\u0026rsquo;re measuring.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis previous AI-human interaction research involved a project funded by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/\u0022\u003EOffice of Naval Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a \u0026lsquo;synthetic teammate pilot\u0026rsquo; of unmanned aerial vehicles. \u0026ldquo;It had the capacity as an AI to interact with a human team member through chat, but they were working on autonomy in decision making,\u0026rdquo; he shares.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGorman adds that the military is looking at robotics or artificial intelligence to handle jobs that are difficult or less engaging for humans. \u0026ldquo;The military has this terminology they use: dirty, dull, or dangerous. 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