Human-Autonomy Teaming: A Review and Analysis of the Empirical Literature

This review paper defines human-autonomy teaming and offers a synthesis of the existing empirical research, identifying the research environments, dependent variables, themes representing the key findings, and critical future research directions. The paper identifies key independent variables involving autonomous agent characteristics, team composition, task characteristics, human individual differences, training, and communication. The paper also finds areas where research findings are clear and consistent, but there are many opportunities for future research. Specifically, research that identifies mechanisms linking team input variables to team output variables.