Matthew Johnson's Publications

Matthew Johnson’s Publications

Selected papers by topic:

Coactive Design: Human-Machine System Design
Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork and Joint Activity Theory
Trust in Automation
Levels of Automation/Autonomy
Robotics and Multi-Robot Control
Interface Design and Data Visualization
Knowledge Elicitation, Modeling and Management
Cyber Security
Policy-Governed Technology and Semantic Representation and Reasoning

Coactive Design: Human-Machine System Design

Vignati, M., Johnson, M., Bunch, L., Carff, J. Duran, D. (2022) Interdependence design principles in practice in Frontiers in Physics, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Structure and Performance of Interdependent Autonomous Human Machine Teams and Systems (A-HMT-S).

Johnson, M., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2021). How Interdependence Explains the World of Teamwork. In Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems (pp. 122–146).

Johnson, M., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2020). The role of interdependence in trust. In C. S. Nam & J. B. Lyons (Eds.), Trust in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 379–403).

Johnson, M. & Vera, A. (2019) “No AI Is an Island: The Case for Teaming Intelligence.” AI Magazine Vol. 40 No. 1 Spring 2019.

Johnson, M., Vignati, M., & Duran, D. (2018). Understanding Human-Autonomy Teaming through Interdependence Analysis. In Symposium on Human Autonomy Teaming.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., & Feltovich, P. J. (2017). Tomorrow’s Human–Machine Design Tools: From Levels of Automation to Interdependencies. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making.

Johnson, M., Shrewsbury, B., Bertrand, S., Calvert, D., Wu, T., Duran, D., Stephen, D., Mertins, N., Carff, J., Rifenburgh, W. and Smith, J. (2017). Team IHMC’s Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Finding Data in the Rubble. Journal of Field Robotics, 34(2), 241-261.

Johnson, M., Shrewsbury, B., Bertrand, S., Wu, T., Duran, D., Floyd, M., Abeles, P., Stephen, D., Mertins, N., Lesman, A. and Carff, J. (2015). Team IHMC’s Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. Journal of Field Robotics, 32(2), pp.192-208.

Johnson, M. (2014). Coactive Design: Designing Support for Interdependence in Human-Robot Teamwork. PhD Thesis – Delft University of Technology.

Johnson, M., J.M. Bradshaw, P. J. Feltovich, C. M. Jonker, M. B. van Riemsdijk, and M. Sierhuis. Coactive Design: Designing Support for Interdependence in Joint Activity. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 3, No. 1, (2014), pp. 43-69.

Koolen, T., Smith, J., Thomas, G., Bertrand, S., Carff, J., Mertins, N., Stephen, D., Abeles, P., Englsberger, J., Mccrory, S. and Van Egmond, J. (2013), October. Summary of Team IHMC’s Virtual Robotics Challenge Entry. In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2013 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on (pp. 307-314). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Feltovich, P. J., Jonker, C., van Riemsdijk, B., & Sierhuis, M. (2012). Autonomy and Interdependence in Human-Agent-Robot Teams. Intelligent Systems, IEEE, March/April 2012 (vol. 27 iss. 2), pp. 43-51.

Johnson, M., Carff, J., & Pratt, J. E. (2012). Coactive Design For Human-MAV Team Navigation. In International Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition. Braunschweig, Germany.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Feltovich, P. J., Jonker, C. M., van Riemsdijk, M. B., & Sierhuis, M. (2012). Uncertainty Scope and Sphere of Influence. In 4th Annual Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop. Boston, MA.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Feltovich, P. J., Hoffman, R. R., Jonker, C., van Riemsdijk, B., & Sierhuis, M. (2011). Beyond Cooperative Robotics: The Central Role of Interdependence in Coactive Design. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 26(3), 81-88.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J., Feltovich, P., Jonker, C., van Riemsdijk, B., & Sierhuis, M. (2011). The Fundamental Principle of Coactive Design: Interdependence Must Shape Autonomy. In M. De Vos, N. Fornara, J. Pitt, & G. Vouros (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI (Vol. 6541, pp. 172-191). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Feltovich, P. J., Jonker, C., Sierhuis, M., & Riemsdijk, B. van. (2010). Toward coactivity. Proceeding of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-robot Interaction. Osaka, Japan: ACM.

Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork and Joint Activity Theory

Johnson, M., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2021). How Interdependence Explains the World of Teamwork. In Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems (pp. 122–146).

Johnson, M. & Vera, A. (2019) “No AI Is an Island: The Case for Teaming Intelligence.” AI Magazine Vol. 40 No. 1 Spring 2019.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Duran, D., Vignati, M., Feltovich, P. J., Jonker, C., & van Riemsdijk, M. B. (2015). RT4T: a reconfigurable testbed for joint human-agent-robot teamwork. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 254–256).

Bunch, L., Bradshaw, J. M., Hoffman, R. R., & Johnson, M. (2015). Principles for human-centered interaction design, part 2: Can humans and machines think together?. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 30(3), 68-75.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Hoffman, R. R., Feltovich, P. J., & Woods, D. D. (2014). Seven Cardinal Virtues for Human-Machine Teamwork: Examples from the DARPA Robotic Challenge. IEEE Intelligent Systems, November/December 2014 (vol. 29 issue 6), pp. 74-80.

Bradshaw, J. M., Hoffman, R. R., Woods, D. D., & Johnson, M. (2013). The Seven Deadly Myths of” Autonomous Systems”. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 28(3), 54-61.

Harbers, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Johnson, M., Feltovich, P., Van Den Bosch, K., & Meyer, J. J. (2012). Explanation in Human-Agent Teamwork. In Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System VII (pp. 21-37). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Harbers, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Johnson, M., Feltovich, P., van den Bosch, K., & Meyer, J. J. (2011, August). Explanation and coordination in human-agent teams: A study in the BW4T testbed. In Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on (Vol. 3, pp. 17-20). IEEE.

Bradshaw, J. M., Feltovich, P. J., & Johnson, M. (2012). Human–Agent Interaction. The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction: A Human-Centered Design Approach.

Johnson, M., Jonker, C. M., van Riemsdijk, M. B., Feltovich, P. J., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2009, November). Joint Activity Testbed: Blocks World for Teams (BW4T). In ESAW (Vol. 9, pp. 254-256).

Bradshaw, J.M., Feltovich, P., Johnson, M., Breedy, M., Bunch, L., Eskridge, T., Jung, H., Lott, J., Uszok, A. and van Diggelen, J. (2009, July). From Tools to Teammates: Joint Activity in Human-Agent-Robot Teams. In International conference on human centered design (pp. 935-944). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Johnson, M., Feltovich, P. J., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2008). R2 where are you? Designing robots for collaboration with humans. Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots (SI3R).

Feltovich, P. J., Bradshaw, J. M., Clancey, W. J., Johnson, M., & Bunch, L. (2007, October). Progress appraisal as a challenging element of coordination in human and machine joint activity. In International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (pp. 124-141). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Feltovich, P. J., Bradshaw, J. M., Clancey, W. J., & Johnson, M. (2006, September). Toward an ontology of regulation: Socially-based support for coordination in human and machine joint activity. In International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (pp. 175-192). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Bradshaw, J.M., Jung, H., Kulkarni, S., Allen, J., Bunch, L., Chambers, N., Feltovich, P., Galescu, L., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M. and Taysom, W. (2004). Toward trustworthy adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction in KAoS. In Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies.

Bradshaw, J.M., Acquisti, A., Allen, J., Breedy, M.R., Bunch, L., Chambers, N., Feltovich, P., Galescu, L., Goodrich, M.A., Jeffers, R. and Johnson, M., 2004, March. Teamwork-centered autonomy for extended human-agent interaction in space applications. In AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium (pp. 22-24).

Trust in Automation

Johnson, M. & Bradshaw, J. M. (2020) The Role of Interdependence in Trust. In Trust in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 379-403). Academic Press. Trust in HRI.

Hoffman, R. R., Matthew Johnson, J.M. Bradshaw, and Al Underbrink. Trust in Automation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, January/February 2013 (vol. 28 issue 1), pp. 84-88.

Levels of Automation/Autonomy

Robotics and Multi-Robot/Agent Control

Jacob, T. Duran, D., Pfeiffer, T., Vignati, M., Johnson, M. (2023) Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capture-The-Flag Game Behavior. Proceedings of the 2023 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2023), Springer (pending).

Zachary, W., Johnson, M., Hoffman, R., Thomas, T., Rosoff, A., & Santarelli, T. (2015). A context-based approach to robot-human interaction. Procedia Manufacturing, 3, 1052-1059.

Koolen, T., Smith, J., Thomas, G., Bertrand, S., Carff, J., Mertins, N., Stephen, D., Abeles, P., Englsberger, J., Mccrory, S. and Van Egmond, J., 2013, October. Summary of Team IHMC’s Virtual Robotics Challenge Entry. In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2013 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on (pp. 307-314). IEEE.

Morris, R. A., Donini, M., Venable, K. B., & Johnson, M. (2013). Designing quiet rotorcraft landing trajectories with probabilistic road maps. In Proceedings of the Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop (SPARK’13). Rome, Italy.

Pratt, J., Koolen, T., De Boer, T., Rebula, J., Cotton, S., Carff, J., Johnson, M. and Neuhaus, P. (2012). Capturability-based analysis and control of legged locomotion, Part 2: Application to M2V2, a lower-body humanoid. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31(10), pp.1117-1133.

Neuhaus, P. D., Pratt, J. E., & Johnson, M. J. (2011). Comprehensive summary of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition’s experience with LittleDog. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(2), 216-235.

Neuhaus, P. D., Pratt, J. E., & Johnson, M. J. (2010, May). Demonstration of quadrupedal locomotion over rough terrain using the littledog robot. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1094-1095). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J. M., Jung, H., Suri, N., & Carvalho, M. (2008, June). Policy Management across Multiple Platforms and Application Domains. In Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2008. POLICY 2008. IEEE Workshop on (pp. 199-202). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Feltovich, P. J., Bradshaw, J. M., & Bunch, L. (2008, May). Human-robot coordination through dynamic regulation. In Robotics and Automation, 2008. ICRA 2008. IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2159-2164). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Intlekofer Jr, K., Jung, H., Bradshaw, J. M., Allen, J., Suri, N., & Carvalho, M. (2008, March). Coordinated operations in mixed teams of humans and robots. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), Athens, Greece (in press, 2008).

Bonnlander, B., Rebula, J., Neuhaus, P., Johnson, M., Hill, G., Perez, C., Carff, J., Howell, W. and Pratt, J., 2008, May. Hierarchical two stage planner for little dog. In Robotics and Automation, 2008. ICRA 2008. IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2201-2202). IEEE.

Rebula, J., Hill, G., Bonnlander, B., Johnson, M., Neuhaus, P., Perez, C., Carff, J., Howell, W. and Pratt, J., 2008, May. Learning Terrain Cost Maps. In Robotics and Automation, 2008. ICRA 2008. IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2217-2217). IEEE.

Bradshaw, J.M., Feltovich, P.J., Johnson, M.J., Bunch, L., Breedy, M.R., Eskridge, T., Jung, H., Lott, J. and Uszok, A. (2008, May). Coordination in human-agent-robot teamwork. In Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2008. CTS 2008. International Symposium on (pp. 467-476). IEEE.

Rebula, J.R., Neuhaus, P.D., Bonnlander, B.V., Johnson, M.J. and Pratt, J.E. (2007). A Controller for the LittleDog Quadruped Walking on Rough Terrain. In Robotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1467-1473). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J., Feltovich, P. J., Jeffers, R., Jung, H., & Uszok, A. (2006). A semantically rich policy based approach to robot control. In ICINCO-RA (pp. 318-325).

Johnson, M., Kulkarni, K., Raj, A., Carff, R., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2005). AMI: An adaptive multi-agent framework for augmented cognition. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference in Human Computer Interaction, AUGCOG Conference (pp. 22-27).

Interface Design and Data Visualization

Koolen, T., Smith, J., Thomas, G., Bertrand, S., Carff, J., Mertins, N., Stephen, D., Abeles, P., Englsberger, J., Mccrory, S. and Van Egmond, J. (2013, October). Summary of Team IHMC’s Virtual Robotics Challenge Entry. In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2013 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on (pp. 307-314). IEEE.

Chua, W. L. K., Johnson, M., Eskridge, T., & Keller, B. (2014, August). AOA: Ambient Obstacle Avoidance Interface. In Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 18-23). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Carff, J., & Pratt, J. E. (2012). Coactive Design For Human-MAV Team Navigation. In International Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition. Braunschweig, Germany.

Bradshaw, J.M., Carvalho, M., Bunch, L., Eskridge, T., Feltovich, P.J., Johnson, M. and Kidwell, D. (2012). Sol: An agent-based framework for cyber situation awareness. KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 26(2), pp.127-140.

Bradshaw, J.M., Carvalho, M., Bunch, L., Eskridge, T., Feltovich, P.J., Forsythe, C., Hoffman, R.R., Johnson, M., Kidwell, D. and Woods, D.D. (2012). Coactive emergence as a sensemaking strategy for cyber operations. ICST (Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering) Transactions of Security and Safety. Special section on The Cognitive Science of Cyber Defense Analysis (in press, 2012).

Eskridge, T. C., Lecoutre, D., Johnson, M., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2009). Network Situational Awareness: A Representative Study. In Software Engineering (Workshops) (pp. 175-182).

Carff, J., Johnson, M., El-Sheikh, E. M., & Pratt, J. E. (2009, October). Human-Robot Team Navigation in Visually Complex Environments. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 3043-3050). IEEE.

Knowledge Elicitation, Modeling and Management

Johnson, M., Beane, M., Mindell, D., & Ryan, J. (2019). Knowledge Management for Rapidly Extensible Collaborative Robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11569 LNCS, 503–523.

Cyber Security

Eskridge, T. C., Lecoutre, D., Johnson, M., & Bradshaw, J. M. (2009). Network Situational Awareness: A Representative Study. In Software Engineering (Workshops) (pp. 175-182).

Policy-Governed Technology and Semantic Representation and Reasoning

Uszok, A., Bradshaw, J.M., Lott, J., Johnson, M., Breedy, M., Vignati, M., Whittaker, K., Jakubowski, K., Bowcock, J. and Apgard, D. (2011, November). Toward a flexible ontology-based policy approach for network operations using the KAoS framework. In MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2011-MILCOM 2011 (pp. 1108-1114). IEEE.

Johnson, M., Bunch, L., Bradshaw, J.M., Feltovich, P.J., Lott, J., Suri, N., Breedy, M. and Heilman, E. (2010, April). Applying Semantic Technologies, Policy Frameworks, and Dissemination Services to Support Information Gathering and Sharing. Proceedings of the Innovation and Policy Analysis Workshop, Indian Wells, CA.

Van Diggelen, J., Bradshaw, J., Johnson, M., Uszok, A., & Feltovich, P. (2010). Implementing collective obligations in human-agent teams using KAoS policies. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V, 36-52.

Bunch, L., J.M. Bradshaw, M. Johnson, J. Lott, P. J. Feltovich, N. Suri, M. Carvalho, L. Tokarcik, R. Winkler, S. Shukla (2009). Regulating the exchange of tactical military information using the KAoS policy services framework. In P. McDermott and L. Allender, Advanced Decision Architectures for the Warfighter: Foundations and Technology. Army Research Laboratory Advanced Decision Architectures Collaborative Technology Alliance, 48hrBooks by Alion Science & Technology Corporation, pp. 73-88.

Johnson, M., Bradshaw, J., Feltovich, P. J., Jeffers, R., Jung, H., & Uszok, A. (2006). A semantically rich policy based approach to robot control. In ICINCO-RA (pp. 318-325).

Bradshaw, J.M., Jung, H., Kulkarni, S., Johnson, M., Feltovich, P., Allen, J., Bunch, L., Chambers, N., Galescu, L., Jeffers, R. and Suri, N. (2005, July). Kaa: policy-based explorations of a richer model for adjustable autonomy. In Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems (pp. 214-221). ACM.

Moreau, L., Bradshaw, J., Breedy, M., Bunch, L., Hayes, P., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Suri, N. and Uszok, A., (2005, May). Behavioural specification of grid services with the KAoS policy language. In Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005. CCGrid 2005. IEEE International Symposium on (Vol. 2, pp. 816-823). IEEE.

Uszok, A., Bradshaw, J. M., Johnson, M., Jeffers, R., Tate, A., Dalton, J., & Aitken, S. (2004). KAoS policy management for semantic web services. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 19(4), 32-41.

Bradshaw, J.M., Feltovich, P., Jung, H., Kulkarni, S., Allen, J., Bunch, L., Chambers, N., Galescu, L., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M. and Sierhuis, M., (2004, October). Policy-based coordination in joint human-agent activity. In Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on (Vol. 2, pp. 2029-2036). IEEE.

Jung, H., Bradshaw, J.M., Kulkarni, S., Breedy, M., Bunch, L., Feltovich, P., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M., Lott, J., Suri, N. and Taysom, W., (2004, March). An ontology-based representation for policy-governed adjustable autonomy. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems.

Johnson, M., Chang, P., Jeffers, R., Bradshaw, J.M., Soo, V.W., Breedy, M.R., Bunch, L., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Suri, N. and Uszok, A., (2003, July). KAoS semantic policy and domain services: An application of DAML to Web services-based grid architectures. In Proceedings of the AAMAS (Vol. 3).

Suri, N., Bradshaw, J., Uszok, A., Breedy, M., Carvalho, M., Groth, P., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J. and Burstein, M., (2003, July). Toward DAML-based policy enforcement for semantic data transformation and filtering in multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems (pp. 1132-1133). ACM.

Uszok, A., Bradshaw, J., Jeffers, R., Suri, N., Hayes, P., Breedy, M., Bunch, L., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S. and Lott, J., (2003, June). KAoS policy and domain services: Toward a description-logic approach to policy representation, deconfliction, and enforcement. In Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2003. Proceedings. POLICY 2003. IEEE 4th International Workshop on (pp. 93-96). IEEE.

Bradshaw, J., Uszok, A., Jeffers, R., Suri, N., Hayes, P., Burstein, M., Acquisti, A., Benyo, B., Breedy, M., Carvalho, M. and Diller, D., (2003, July). Representation and reasoning for DAML-based policy and domain services in KAoS and Nomads. In Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems (pp. 835-842). ACM.