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The Coevolution of Computational and Experimental Methods in Human-AI Teams
Friday, Feb 20th, 12 pm EST
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Neal Outland (University of Georgia) examines human–AI teams through the coevolution of theory, computational modeling, and experimentation. He traces fragmented trust theories across disciplines, shows how modeling and experiments translate theory into practice, and looks ahead to bidirectional trust and identity dynamics.
@susannahpaletz

OTTRS Nov 12

Nov 21, 2025 12 PM EDT

How NASA’s Robot Teams Reveal the Future of Human-AI Collaboration—Lessons from Space You Can’t Ignore.

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@susannahpaletz

#ai #robot

OTTRS Oct 20

Friday, Oct 24th, 12 pm EST

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How do humans and AI build trust together? Neal Outland (University of Georgia) reveals how theory, computational modeling, and experiments coevolve to advance human-AI team research. From fragmented trust theories to bidirectional models and identity dynamics, discover the emerging future of adaptive AI systems. Explore this groundbreaking HAT research today!

#AiResearch #teams

OTTRS Sep 19

Webinar - Ethics for Agentic Technology Ariel Greenberg
Sep 26, 2025 12:00 PM EST

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineEthics #TechEthics #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfWork #HumanAICollaboration

AI is powerful. But can it be principled?

As AI agents become more integrated into our world, ensuring they act responsibly is paramount. This requires more than just better code—it requires a new field of machine ethics.

Rresponsible AI & effective person-machine teaming.

@nkuriakos @susannahpaletz

OTTRS May 9, 2025

NEW RESEARCH: Breaking the hybrid meeting divide!

Friday, May 16th, 12 PM EDT

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Dr. Susan R. Fussell has been studying how remote participants struggle in hybrid meetings & developing tools to level the playing field.

Join us to explore our ethnographic findings & see prototypes creating more equitable experiences!

#HybridWork #WorkplaceInnovation
@nkuriakos @susannahpaletz

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: Understanding and Supporting Hybrid Meetings. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Abstract: Since the COVID era, team meetings and larger work gatherings have increasingly used a hybrid format in which some attendees are together in a local room while others connect remotely. In earlier research work, this hybrid meeting format has been shown to raise many challenges for remote attendees, including lower visibility and issues gaining the conversational floor. Recently, my students and I have been revisiting this topic, using ethnographic research to understand the dynamics of hybrid team meetings and colloquia. We have also been prototyping and testing new tools to improve these dynamics. In this talk, I’ll (a) provide an overview of the earlier findings on hybrid meetings, (b) present our ethnographic findings, and (c) describe some of our hybrid meeting prototypes and our user study results.

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OTTRS Mar 25, 2025

Reminder: Webinar - Reimagining leadership - Dr. N. Sharon Hill - Mar 28, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

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The lack of face-to-face interaction in virtual environments might place a greater emphasis on social, emotional, cultural, and relational leadership intelligences. This might accelerate the tectonic shifts in leadership prototypes: less masculine and monoculture in leadership mindsets and behaviors.
@susannahpaletz

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: "Reimagining leadership: Evolving prototypes in virtual work". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Abstract: Virtual work—defined as work interactions using technology tools and not conducted in person (face-to-face)—has steadily increased in recent decades and is now a prominent feature of the contemporary workplace. Virtual work arrangements, such as virtual teams and remote work, present unique challenges, which place new demands on leaders to help followers work effectively in a virtual context. These changing leadership requirements may modify individuals’ preconceived ideas or cognitive structures about the characteristics they associate with leaders—known as leadership prototypes. Understanding these cognitive structures is crucial, as individuals are more likely to be perceived as leaders when their characteristics align with these prototypes, resulting in more positive evaluations of their leadership potential and effectiveness. I will present an overview of my research stream focused on virtual leadership, including two working papers. Findings from the first paper confirm that virtual work contexts modify leadership prototypes. The second paper provides evidence that the shift in leadership prototypes reduces their masculinity in virtual (compared to traditional face-to-face settings), mitigating bias against women leaders.

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OTTRS Mar 8, 2025

Reimagining leadership: Evolving prototypes in virtual work.
Dr. N. Sharon Hill presents her research findings.

Webinar on March 28, 2025 12 PM EDT
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https://umd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HrNmUkv4SPKskIbcQFZAfA

@susannahpaletz

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: "Reimagining leadership: Evolving prototypes in virtual work". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Abstract: Virtual work—defined as work interactions using technology tools and not conducted in person (face-to-face)—has steadily increased in recent decades and is now a prominent feature of the contemporary workplace. Virtual work arrangements, such as virtual teams and remote work, present unique challenges, which place new demands on leaders to help followers work effectively in a virtual context. These changing leadership requirements may modify individuals’ preconceived ideas or cognitive structures about the characteristics they associate with leaders—known as leadership prototypes. Understanding these cognitive structures is crucial, as individuals are more likely to be perceived as leaders when their characteristics align with these prototypes, resulting in more positive evaluations of their leadership potential and effectiveness. I will present an overview of my research stream focused on virtual leadership, including two working papers. Findings from the first paper confirm that virtual work contexts modify leadership prototypes. The second paper provides evidence that the shift in leadership prototypes reduces their masculinity in virtual (compared to traditional face-to-face settings), mitigating bias against women leaders.

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OTTRS Feb 21, 2025

Reminder Tara Behrend will be our featured speaker next friday 2/28/25 12:00 pm EST.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: Consequences of workplace surveillance: An example from police body-worn cameras. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Speaker: Tara Behrend Abstract: An emerging science on the psychology of surveillance has shown that effects vary widely; in some cases, surveillance increases stress, or harms performance, while in other cases it can protect vulnerable workers and aid in safety and productivity. Much of the variance in these effects can be attributed to the way surveillance is implemented: what is monitored, by who, and for what purpose. In this talk I will explore these ideas using the context of police officers who wear cameras while on duty. In 40 departments consisting of over 800 officers, we find that cameras have different effects on officers depending on these contextual factors. I will discuss policy and organizational implications of the findings.

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OTTRS Oct 23, 2024

@nkuriakos .
Up your alley!!!

OTTRS Oct 23, 2024

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Recent technological advances are shifting the role of AI from tool to teammate, sparking a surge of interest in human-AI teams. In fact, tech giants now market “AI teammates,” and military agencies sponsor research on human-AI teams. This new form of teamwork raises the question: how can we apply our knowledge of human teams to enhance teamwork with AI?

#AI #AITeaming #teams

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: "When AI Makes the Team". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Speaker: Lindsay Larson, Assistant Professor Abstract: Recent technological advances are shifting the role of AI from tool to teammate, sparking a surge of interest in human-AI teams. In fact, tech giants now market “AI teammates,” and military agencies sponsor research on human-AI teams. This new form of teamwork raises the question: how can we apply our knowledge of human teams to enhance teamwork with AI? Importantly, AI agents differ fundamentally from humans, impacting the potential effectiveness of human-centered models for human-AI teamwork. In this talk, I will review my recent research that draws on human-centered models of teamwork to facilitate effective human-AI teamwork. These projects examine the conditions under which AI “makes the team,” such as when teammates are most receptive to an AI teammate, the functional roles teammates are most comfortable with AI enacting, and the mental capabilities humans should perceive in their AI to be considered an AI teammate. I will also discuss how, by studying human-AI teams, we may also strengthen our foundational understanding of traditional teams.

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