This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Aug 2026 11:00 - 11:30 at A-1300 - Safety-Critical and Autonomous Systems Chair(s): Mehdi Mirakhorli

Multi-Operator, Multi-UAV (MOMU) environments impose substantial cognitive demands on human teams supervising autonomous swarms under dynamic and safety-critical conditions, with similar challenges arising in other autonomous swarming domains. Many documented failures involve breakdowns in human situational awareness (SA) and team coordination, triggered by previously unrecognized conditions (unknown unknowns) that lead to hazardous situations. This motivates a shift from reactive practices, where new requirements are discovered only when failures occur, towards proactive, safety-driven requirements discovery. Unfortunately, existing requirement elicitation practices offer limited support for proactively identifying SA and team coordination failures under high workload and time pressures. We address this challenge through introducing a novel Multi-Operator, Multi-UAV eXperimental platform (MOMUx), which provides a high-fidelity simulation environment that serves as a catalyst for identifying MOMU interaction failures. MOMUx provides a low-risk environment for collecting multi-modal human-factor data in simulation, integrates the data into a mission timeline, and uses this to identify SIGACTs as short, time-bounded operationally significant events capturing breakdowns in situational awareness and team coordination. These SIGACTs guide the analysis and specification of missing requirements. We use MOMUx to study 12 teams supervising swarms of UAVs, identify 35 SIGACTs which were distilled into 24 new and clarifying requirements, and demonstrate that these requirements are relevant to real-world settings.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Aug

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11:00 - 12:30
Safety-Critical and Autonomous SystemsRE@Next! Papers / Research Papers at A-1300
Chair(s): Mehdi Mirakhorli University of Hawaii at Manoa
11:00
30m
Talk
MOMUx: A Catalyst for Discovering Situational Awareness and Team Coordination Requirements for Human-Autonomy Teaming
Research Papers
Johanna Olesk University of Notre Dame, Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
11:30
30m
Talk
Stakeholder-Adaptive Safety Report Generation Using RAG and GSN
RE@Next! Papers
Hayato Kato Nihon University, Michio HAYASHI TIER IV North America, Tomoyuki TSUCHIYA TIER IV, Minami Yoda Nihon University, Yutaka Matsuno Nihon University
12:00
30m
Talk
A Taxonomy of Human-Robot Teamwork Requirements
Research Papers
Anastasia Mavridou KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, Hazel Taylor The University of Manchester, Sandy Lozito NASA Ames Research Center, Louise Dennis The University of Manchester, Michael Fisher University of Manchester, UK, Marie Farrell The University of Manchester
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