Presenter

Patty McDermott has been working in the area of human-machine teaming and autonomous systems for over a decade. Her focus is on developing automation, autonomy, and AI that effectively partners with humans to accomplish the mission. She also develops techniques and measures to assess how well technology partners with humans – do humans trust it appropriately, can humans redirect it, is it understandable, and does it support problem solving? Patty developed a framework that describes how to support human-machine teaming in design and authored the Human-Machine Teaming Systems Engineering Guide, which explains how to develop tailored requirements for successful collaboration.