AI*MAN Lab
Transparent & Traceable AI in Human-AI Teamwork
The AI*MAN Lab is studying and trying to improve many aspects of human-AI teamwork. Consider, for example, a search-and-rescue team where autonomous drones and human rescuers collaborate to map unknown search area, localise victims, and share search-and-rescue tasks efficiently. Alternatively, consider a social robot that can interact creatively and in a human-like way, assisting and helping people with conditions such as autism or dementia. Such a robot would be able to understand what a human might think or feel, and explain itself to a user in return.
Experience shows that excellent performance improvements are possible in industry, education, healthcare and many more applications when AI and humans work together, exploiting both human instincts for effective decisions in unknown situations and fast and logical AI decisions.In a human-AI team, decisions made by either the human or the AI agent may seem illogical to the other party if only individual goals are considered, so a mutual understanding of each other’s decision-making processes and actions is critical in pursuit of common team goal(s).
Part of our research therefore involves modelling the way humans think and building logical models that will help the AI agents to understand their human teammates. We develop AI agents able to take decisions that are good for the entire team and make these decisions transparent to humans.
The AI*MAN Lab is part of the TU Delft AI Labs programme.
The Team
Directors
Anahita Jamshidnejad
Faculty of AE
Lab director
Myrthe Tielman
Faculty of EEMCS
Lab director
PhD's
Mirko Baglioni
PhD candidate
Carolina Jorge
PhD candidate
Ruben Verhagen
PhD candidate
Associated faculty
Catholijn Jonker
Associated faculty
Max Mulder
Associated faculty
Guido de Croon
Associated faculty
Mark Neerincx
Associated faculty
Education
Courses
2024/2025
- Mathematical and Human-Inspired Decision Making | AE4352
- Fundamentals of AI Programme | IFEEMCS520100
- Research Project | CSE3000
2023/2024
- Mathematical and Human-Inspired Decision Making | AE4352
- Fundamentals of AI Programme | IFEEMCS520100
- Research Project | CSE3000
2022/2023
- Mathematical and Human-Inspired Decision Making | AE4352
- Fundamentals of AI Programme | IFEEMCS520100
- Converational Agents | CS4270
- Research Project | CSE3000
2021/2022
- Converational Agents | CS4270
- Research Project | CSE3000
2020/2021
- Converational Agents | CS4270
- Collaborative Artificial Intelligence | CSE3210
- Research Project | CSE3000
2019/2020
- Automatic Flight Control System Design | AE4301
- Human Computer Interaction | CSE3500
- Research Project | CSE3000
Master projects
Ongoing
- The impact of AI expressing feelings/emotions with explanation in human-robot teamwork, Myrthe Tielman, Sunwei Wang (2023/2024)
- Hybrid Search-and-Rescue Robots, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Berkay Yaz?c?o?lu (2023/2024)
- Multi-Agent Outdoor Search-and-Rescue, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Craig Maxwell (2023/2024)
- Data Fusion for Search-and-Rescue, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Bernardo Henriques (2023/2024)
- Formalizing Theory of Mind mechanisms and tasks for reinforcement learning, Myrthe Tielman, Jan-Willem van Rhenen (2022/2023)
Finished
- Development of a model predictive controller for motion planning in a dynamic urban search and rescue environment, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Karlo Rado (2022/2023)
- Modeling an emergency evacuation, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Laura Wilmes (2022/2023)
- PersonaIized and Adaptive Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with a Novel Fuzzy Logic Control and Reinforcement Learning-Based Paradigm, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Marcel Munster (2022/2023)
- The Influence of Adapting an Agent’s Explanation Style to a Human Team Leader Role on Human-Agent Teamwork during a Simulated Search and Rescue Task, Myrthe Tielman, Ryan Kap (2022/2023)
- Exploring the Effect of Automation Failure on the Human’s Trustworthiness in Human-Agent Teamwork, Myrthe Tielman, Nikki Bouman (2022/2023)
- Exploring the effect of the information amount in explanation on different gaming expertise levels, Myrthe Tielman, Jing Zhou (2022/2023)
- Agent Failure, Trust Repair, and Fluency in Human-AI Teams: Impact of Opportunistic Interdependence Relationship on Trust Violation, Trust Repair, and on Collaboration Fluency in a Human-Agent Team, Myrthe Tielman, Tanahashi, Kanta (2022/2023)
- Agent Failure and Trust Repair in Human-Agent Teams: Interdependence Impact on Trust Repair Strategy and Collaboration Fluency in Human-AI Team, Myrthe Tielman, Narbutas, Tauras (2022/2023)
- The Influence of Interdependence on Trust Repair in Human-Agent Teams: Comparing the Effectiveness of Trust Repair Strategies in Full Independence and Complementary Independence, Myrthe Tielman, Kim, Cherin (2022/2023)
- How truthful explanation of a conceder negotiation agent affects human trust, compared to a neutral one, Myrthe Tielman, Germanov, Pavel (2022/2023)
- Negotiating task allocation in a team with the help of a negotiator agent, Myrthe Tielman, Luu, justin (2022/2023)
- Negotiation with the help of a negotiation agent: How the agent’s negotiation style affects trust, Myrthe Tielman, Penchev, Kostadin (2022/2023)
- Negotiating task allocation in a team with the help of a negotiator agent: How the introduction of the agent affects the trust, Myrthe Tielman, van der Werff, Kevin (2022/2023)
- The Effect of Different Explanations of Conceder Negotiation Style on the Trust between Humans and Agents, Myrthe Tielman, Hasdemir, Deniz Tan (2022/2023)
- The Influence of Interdependence Relationships on Trust Repair Strategies and Collaboration Fluency, Myrthe Tielman, Marcu, Alexandra (2022/2023)
- Mathematical Modelling of Theory of Mind, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Maria Patrício (2021/2022)
- Hierarchical Cooperative Mission Planning of Non-Homogeneous Autonomous Search-and-Rescue Robots, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Christopher de Koning (2021/2022)
- Using explanations to improve subjective experience of control in situations of delayed control effects, Myrthe Tielman, Huishun Zhang (2021/2022)
- Tailoring User-Aware Agent Explanations to Properly Align Human Trust, Myrthe Tielman, Vogel, Marin (2021/2022)
- The Impact of Tailoring Agent Explanations According to Human Performance on Human-AI Teamwork, Myrthe Tielman, Parlar, Can (2021/2022)
- Using Human Workload to Adjust Agent Explanations in Human-agent Teamwork, Myrthe Tielman, LEI, Zhiqiang (2021/2022)
- Assessing the Changes in Human Trustworthiness as a Result of an Artificial Agent Directing the Human in Joint Activities, Myrthe Tielman, Dinu, Iulia (2021/2022)
- Assisting agent’s effect on the trustworthiness of their human teammate, Myrthe Tielman, Delia, Alto (2021/2022)
- Human trustworthiness when collaborating with a friendly agent: Final paper, Myrthe Tielman, Rademaker, Justin (2021/2022)
- Towards Trust in Human-AI Teams, Myrthe Tielman, Lindhorst, Paul (2021/2022)
- The effects of an agent asking for help on a human's trustworthiness, Myrthe Tielman, Obame Obiang, Christopher (2021/2022)
- Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Control Applied to Socially Assistive Drones, Anahita Jamshidnejad, Tomas Ascensao (2020/2021)
- Directability’s influence on human-agent trust, Myrthe Tielman, Jiang, Yuxin (2020/2021)
- The Influence of Information Sharing on the Predictability of the Human to an Agent, Myrthe Tielman, van der Kruk, Stephen (2020/2021)
- Influence of shared information on predictability in human-agent teams, Myrthe Tielman, Nagy, Timea (2020/2021)
- Sharing human mental model with an AI agent to achieve team effectiveness, Myrthe Tielman, Ziad Ahmad Saad Soliman Nawar, Ziad (2020/2021)
