Human-robot teams in space environments are difficult to evaluate, in large part because performance of these teams is influenced by a variety of factors, including team size, structure, and composition. We introduce and describe a novel experimental framework that is sensitive to these factors, and that serves as a testbed to facilitate the study of human-robot teaming in space. We also report on the results of a preliminary study in this framework that involves a human interacting with a simulated Mars rover. Our findings show that people exhibited great variation in strategy and performance, and point to the role that decision-making and task-switching may have played in this result. This study is the first in a larger effort to develop a rich multimodal corpus and to investigate various dimensions of teaming in this domain.
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