Multiparty proactive communication: a perspective for evolving shared mental models
Kaivan Kamali, Xiaocong Fan, John Yen · 2006
Helping behavior in effective teams is enabled by some overlapping “shared mental models ” that are developed and maintained by members of the team. In this pa-per, we take the perspective that multiparty “proactive” communication is critical for establishing and main-taining such a shared mental model among teammates, which is the basis for agents to offer proactive help and to achieve coherent teamwork. We first provide for-mal semantics for multiparty proactive performatives within a team setting. We then examine how such per-formatives result in updates to mental model of team-mates, and how such updates can trigger helpful behav-iors from other teammates.