Robert Thomson
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Robert Thomson’s research lies at the critical intersection of human-autonomy teaming, trust dynamics, and team cohesion. His most-cited work, “Identifying New Team Trust and Team Cohesion Metrics that Support Future Human-Autonomy Teams” (2020), has garnered 4 citations—a modest but meaningful start in a nascent field. In this foundational paper, Thomson proposes novel metrics for measuring trust and cohesion within teams that include autonomous agents, addressing a pressing gap as artificial intelligence becomes an active collaborator rather than a mere tool. By focusing on how human operators calibrate trust in machine teammates and how cohesion evolves in mixed-human-autonomy settings, his work directly informs the design of safer, more effective collaborative systems for domains like defense, healthcare, and space exploration. While still early in his career, Thomson’s contributions are already shaping the conversation around team performance metrics that go beyond traditional human-only frameworks. His research promises to be instrumental as organizations increasingly deploy autonomous systems alongside human teams, ensuring that trust and cohesion—long recognized as pillars of team success—are properly understood and measured in this new paradigm.
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