== Basics ==

'''Goal:''' Make humans more productive.

'''How:''' Allow them to do more tasks.

'''Claim:''' Multiple robots will help.

== Problem Domain Specifics ==

'''Role of human:''' Does the human perform the tasks he schedules?  Does he perform secondary tasks?  How much involvement does the human have in managing the schedule?

'''Role of robots:''' Robots are a means to an end.  They are there to aid the human to complete more tasks than would be completed otherwise.

'''Drucker Quote:''' Automation is the concept of the organization of work. (The Practice of Management, p.21)

== Task Allocation ==

'''Diagram for single human manager:''' Tree structure, with the human as the root, one or more robots under him, and tasks as leaf nodes (under both the human and robots).

'''Function Allocation:''' Spatial/temporal may blur task and function allocation concepts in this domain.

'''Task Clustering:''' How should tasks be clustered?  By similarity with other tasks?

== Scheduling ==

'''How to modify it:''' Modify resource needs, performance requirements, etc. and let the system tell you what is feasible?

'''Adjustable/Adaptable Autonomy:''' Can "bump" deadline by moving to higher autonomy or wait mode.  Different levels of autonomy will have different IT/NT signatures.

'''NT/IT:''' Set intervals?  Or is the human/robots free to choose where their attention is used?

'''Model:''' Can drag tasks to be handled by the robot, but then that robot's IT/NT for the human changes.  Switch costs need to be addressed as well.  Bars representing IT can possibly be lengthened/shortened to better use the human's attention.

== Possible Experiments ==

'''Resolve Information Sets:''' Have two people at two different computers with two different information sets.  Give them a way to communicate, and measure task performance and information transmission.