Getting Along With Autonomous Teammates: Understanding the Socio-Emotional and Teaming Aspects of Trust in Human-Autonomy Teams

Trust plays a critical role in both effective teamwork and the effective use of autonomous technologies, and therefore holds paramount importance in human-autonomy teaming (HAT). Using qualitative analysis of the interviews from an 8-hr-long experiment conducted in an aircraft simulation environment, this study identifies the socio-emotional and team-related qualities that humans desire in their autonomous teammate for them to trust it.