Amy R. Pritchett
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About
Amy R. Pritchett is a leading voice in the design and evaluation of human-robot teams, particularly for complex, high-stakes environments like spaceflight. Her research focuses on the critical challenge of **function allocation**—determining how tasks and interactions should be divided between humans and autonomous systems. Pritchett’s major contribution is a rigorous, computational approach to this problem, moving beyond static analysis to model the dynamic, emergent nature of teamwork. Her most cited work (28 citations) introduces a three-phase methodology for allocating work and interaction in human-robot teams, explicitly accounting for real-world constraints and dependencies. She further advanced the field by proposing comprehensive metrics that extend beyond simple performance to evaluate the full teamwork dynamics of multi-human, multi-robot teams (18 citations). Through her “Work Models that Compute” (WMC) simulation framework, Pritchett has demonstrated how to objectively evaluate and predict the impact of different function allocations on both taskwork and teamwork, including how teams can recover from robot failures. Her work is foundational for designing safer, more effective human-robot teams in domains from space exploration to manufacturing.
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