Welcome to the HCMI Wiki. HCMI stands for Human Centered Machine Intelligence. The HCMI research lab at the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University is under the direction of Prof. Michael Goodrich. We believe that the ultimate purpose of intelligent machines (robots and AI systems) is to serve humans. Therefore, it is important for machines to fit in with human environments and human procedures/processes/models. A well-designed and task-appropriate Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) method can improve task performance and allows intelligent machines to better support/facilitate human tasks. Sponsors of current and previous work include the NSF, DARPA, ARL, ONR, and INL.

Prof. Goodrich and Joseph working on a UAV

“Missing Person” in a field trial
Current Events
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Tim McLain
shared this article on what makes great research (and how to choose a research topic). I recommend that you read this.
See BYU Weekly's interview with Mike and Lanny on WiSAR research
here (story starts at 5:33).
An interesting tech report on what the air force is planning for technology development through 2030 is available on the
from the WiSAR wiki.
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Researcher Profiles
Faculty
link=http://cs.byu.edu/faculty/goodrich_michael_a| Michael GoodrichMichael A. Goodrich,
Doctoral Students
Masters Students
Undergraduate Students
Lab Alumni:
Nathan Wonnacott Mike Roscheck, Timothy Major, Yisong Guo, Tyler Gill, Philip Cook, Clayton Lemons, Spencer Gardner, Michelle Farmer, Robert Brown, Amy Glaves, Jon Whetten, Sukhbat Tumur-Ochir, Jonathan Link, Mercedes Kurtz, Mario Alberto Garcia, Abe Austin, Curtis Nielsen and Ben Hardin, Jacob Crandall, Joseph Cooper, Morgan Quigley, Brian Buss, Nathan Rackliffe, Bob Ricks, Alan Olsen now with Anybots, Jeff Stimpson, Tom Palmer
Research Objectives
How to support Wilderness Search and Rescue operations with UAV technologies?
How to apply assistive robotics technologies to help treat children with Autism in clinical settings?
Research HRI techniques to improve task performances for human and artificial agents working as a team.
Multi-agent management and learning.
Probability Maps for lost person behavior to support Wilderness Search and Rescue
Current Projects

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'''WiSAR Project''':
WiSAR stands for
Wilderness Search and Rescue. This is a joint project with the Computer Vision lab and the MAGICC lab. The goal is to use technology to support Wilderness Search and Rescue operations. In our lab, we are interested in the following topics:
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Interactive probability distribution
Sliding autonomy in UAV path-planning
UAV control interface and HRI ideas
Incident Support Management System for Heterogeneous Agents

thumb|Therapist-in-the-loop Assitive Robotics
Blogs, human-factors videos, etc
Fun Links
Getting started
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User's Guide for information on using the MediaWiki software.
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