Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program - Studying human-autonomy teaming through mobile games and wearable sensors

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) offers a research opportunity focused on facilitating human-autonomy teaming through methods that increase an autonomy's understanding of a human teammate's state, preferences, and intents. The research involves using mobile games and wearable sensors to collect complex, continuous behavioral and physiological data from individuals over long periods (e.g., 6 months). Researchers will apply machine learning methods to predict behavior and make inferences about underlying processes that generate behavior as a means of improving human-autonomy team outcomes. The program is designed to increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Applicants are expected to have expertise with computational and analytical methods as well as a background in human data analysis or collection. The Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) is ARL's principal center for research and development directed toward optimizing Soldier performance and human-autonomy teaming, focusing on how humans and human teams perform and change in dynamic environments and situations.