06 ARCS Lab — Visibility

Talks & news.

Dr. Schelble and the ARCS Lab are active contributors to national conversations on human-AI teaming in defense, academia, and industry — with invited presentations at the National Academies, West Point, Carnegie Mellon, and beyond.

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Invited Talks
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News Items
Invited Presentations

Invited talks

September 2025
Performance Optimization in Human-AI Teams
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Board on Human-Systems Integration (BOHSI) Webinar
National Academies, Washington, DC (Virtual)
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June 2025
Mitigating the Risks of Compromised AI Teammates
AI on the Battlefield Workshop
United States Military Academy (West Point), West Point, NY
February 2025
Human-Machine Teaming Deep Dive
Technical Advisory Panel on the Use of AI Systems in Warfare
United States Military Academy (West Point), West Point, NY
February 2025
Emerging Technologies Panel
IISE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Knoxville, TN
September 2024
Getting on the Same Page: Information-Sharing, Team Cognition, Trust, and Ethics in Human-AI Teams
CMU AI Institute for Societal Decision Making
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
September 2024
From Assistance to Autonomy: Ethical Considerations in Human-AI Teaming
Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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September 2023
Human-AI Teaming: Ethics, Trust, & Shared Knowledge
RTX (Raytheon Technologies)
East Hartford, CT
Lab News & Announcements

In the news

Milestones, awards, and coverage from the lab's first years.

Press June 2026
“Artificial Enhancements” · Tickle College of Engineering
The Tickle College of Engineering featured the lab's work on AI teammates: AI agents built to act as genuine collaborators rather than chatbots, and the ARO-funded effort to detect and recover from compromised teammates across manufacturing, nuclear energy, disaster recovery, and healthcare.
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Press April 2026
ARO research featured by EurekAlert!
Coverage of the lab's Army Research Office cooperative agreement on preventing and recovering from compromised AI teammates, including how human-AI teams can recognize when an AI may have been attacked.
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Talk April 2026
Invited seminar at UTK Psychology & Neuroscience
Dr. Schelble delivered "Human-AI Teaming: The Importance of Human-AI Complementarity" at the University of Tennessee Psychology & Neuroscience Department Seminar.
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Publication April 2026
New PACM HCI article on AI teammates in transition phases
"A Mixed Methods Approach to Analyzing the Role of AI Teammates in Transition Phases" appears in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
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Publication February 2026
Complementarity framework published in PNAS Nexus
"Toward a Science of Human-AI Teaming for Decision-Making: A Complementarity Framework", a multi-institution collaboration including Carnegie Mellon, is out in PNAS Nexus.
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Talk September 2025
National Academies webinar on human-AI team performance
Dr. Schelble presented "Performance Optimization in Human-AI Teams" to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Human-Systems Integration.
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Talk June 2025
AI on the Battlefield · West Point
Invited talk "Mitigating the Risks of Compromised AI Teammates" at the AI on the Battlefield Workshop, United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Talk February 2025
Technical Advisory Panel on AI in warfare
Dr. Schelble delivered a Human-Machine Teaming Deep Dive for the Technical Advisory Panel on the Use of AI Systems in Warfare at West Point.
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Award January 2025
ACM TiiS Featured Article honors
"I Know This Looks Bad, But I Can Explain" was selected as a 2023 & 2024 Featured Article for ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
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Funding September 2024
ARO funds ARCS Lab research on compromised AI teammates
The Army Research Office awarded a cooperative agreement to study preventing, identifying, and mitigating compromised AI teammates using shared situation awareness and mental model accuracy.
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Talk September 2024
Invited talks at CMU and UT Austin
Dr. Schelble spoke at Carnegie Mellon's AI Institute for Societal Decision Making and at the University of Texas at Austin on ethics and team cognition in human-AI teams.
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Lab August 2024
ARCS Lab launches at the University of Tennessee
Dr. Schelble joined UTK Industrial & Systems Engineering as Assistant Professor and founded the AI & Robotics for Collaborative Systems (ARCS) Lab.
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Award May 2024
Most Outstanding Graduate Student, Clemson HCC
Recognized as the Most Outstanding Graduate Student in Clemson University's Human-Centered Computing PhD program.
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Talk September 2023
Invited industry talk at RTX
"Human-AI Teaming: Ethics, Trust, & Shared Knowledge" presented at RTX (Raytheon Technologies), East Hartford, CT.
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Award January 2023
Best JCEDM Article of 2022
"Exploring the Relationship Between Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Teaming" named Best Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Article of 2022.
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Award November 2022
Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM GROUP
"Let's Think Together!" received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work.
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Award November 2020
Best Overall Paper at HAI 2020
"Invoking Principles of Groupware to Develop and Evaluate Present and Future Human-Agent Teams" won Best Overall Paper at the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.
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