Thomas Williams
Colorado School Of Mines
Multi-robot teams aboard the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will need to communicate with human teammates aboard the Gateway and with ground control workers permanently stationed on earth. Many aspects of these robots’ communication strategies may be viewed as performative: robots may perform different levels of autonomy to build trust and rapport through transparency, and may perform different identities to control the localization of that trust to specific bodies and identities. Through the lens of performance of identity and autonomy, we will develop a better understanding of the impact of human-multi-robot communication strategies on the localization, dissociation, and fragmentation of human trust across different robot bodies and identities, and enable robots to maintain sensitivity to spatiotemporal distance when communicating, to build trust and rapport without cognitively overloading human teammates.