Mixed Initiative MURI Feedback Kickoff Meeting, Sep 07

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Mixed Initiative MURI FeedbackKickoff Meeting,
Sep 07

• Technical
• Recognize that this is a very hard problem
• Liked extending links between cognitive and
  social psychology
• Underlying themes of communications and decision
  making in each of the talks complimentary views
• Work toward common list of terms/definitions
  (potential goal of upcoming workshop)
• When setting up experiments, be sure the dynamic
  elements are capable of destabilizing the system
  objectives (dont abstract away lower level
  dynamics in that they may destabilize higher
  order decision processes)

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Mixed Initiative MURI FeedbackKickoff Meeting,
Sep 07

• Collaboration
• We are very excited about the team
• Genuine interest from engineers to collaborate
  with psychologists and vice versa
• Some connections that were already seeing, e.g.
• Phil and Debbie, John cognitive/social activities
• Phil and Debbie excited about Francescos
  formulation
• Juris excited about Davids stochastic
  programming formulations
• Others
• Need further discussions at working level
• Organize sessions within conferences. Joint
  journal articles.
• Sharing students post docs

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Mixed Initiative MURI FeedbackKickoff Meeting,
Sep 07

• AF Relevance
• Juris strong insight into military culture and
  decision making
• Think about final measures of merit (NOT looking
  for vignettes and demos as an end product)
• Dont focus too much on surveillance missions
• Be sure to reach out to other related efforts
  (MURIs, DCT, etc)