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The Future of Work at the Human – Technology Frontier

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SRI International and the National Science Foundation are hosting a series of workshops to define current research needs, identify and convene relevant stakeholders, and inform a framework for future collaboration.

2022 PI/Co-PI meeting for awardees of the FW-HTF Big Idea Program

The National Science Foundation’s Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) Big Idea Program supports convergent research at the intersection of future work, technology, and workers. On behalf of NSF, SRI International hosted the 2022 virtual PI/Co-PI meeting for FW-HTF Big Idea Program awardees on June 27-28, 2022. For the meeting, PIs and Co-PIs created posters highlighting their current work and their unique approach to convergent research.

Posters

Agriculture

FW-HTF-P: Data Science to Save Bees and Transform the Future Work of Beekeepers

FW-HTF-RL: Testing a Responsible Innovation Approach for Integrating Precision Agriculture (PA) Technologies with Future Farm Workers and Work

Communications & media

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-R: The future of news work: Human-technology collaboration for journalistic research and narrative discovery

FW-HTF-RM: Intelligent Social Network Interventions to Augment Human Cognition for Interdisciplinary Interactions in Project Teams

Construction & infrastructure

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-P: IntelEUI: Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality to Enhance Workforce Productivity for the Energy and Utilities Industry

FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: Augmenting and Advancing Cognitive Performance of Control Room Operators for Power Grid Resiliency

FW-HTF: First Person View and Augmented Reality for Airborne Embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistants

FW-HTF-P: Collaborative Research: Exoskeleton-Assisted Worker Performance Augmentation in Construction

FW-HTF-P: Inspector Assistant Robot for Future Construction Progress Monitoring

FW-HTF-R/Collaborative Research: Human-Robot Sensory Transfer for Worker Productivity, Training, and Quality of Life in Remote Undersea Inspection and Construction Tasks

FW-HTF-R: Collaborative Research: Worker-AI Teaming to Enable ADHD Workforce Participation in the Construction Industry of the Future

FW-HTF-RM: Collaborative Research: Assistive Intelligence for Cooperative Robot and Inspector Survey of Infrastructure Systems (AI-CRISIS)

FW-HTF-RM: The Future of Teleoperation in Construction Workplaces

FW-HTF-P: Integrating Practitioner Knowledge and Technology for the Future of Water Treatment

Creative & gig work

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RM: Augmentation for Tomorrow: Expanding the Future Capacities of Independent Workers

FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: An Embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistant to Enhance Cognitive Performance of Shift Workers

FW-HTF-P Understanding Gig Work and its Effects on Wellbeing over the Life Course in the United States: A Machine Learning Approach

FW-HTF-P: Exploring Creative Design at the Human-technology Frontier Through the Emerging Artist-technologist Occupation

FW-HTF-P: Workers and Technology Together (WATT)

FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: Enabling Marginalized Rural and Urban Digital Workers to Collaborate with AI to Learn Skills, Increase Wages, and Access Creative Work

FW-HTF-RM: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Algorithmic Workplace: A Multi-Method Study for Comprehensive Optimization of Platforms

RAPID: Gig Service Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing Financial Impacts, Relief Attitudes, and State Policies

Education & training

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF: Augmented Cognition for Teaching: Transforming Teacher Work with Intelligent Cognitive Assistants

FW-HTF: The future of classroom work: Automated Teaching Assistants

FW-HTF-P: Collaborative Research: Artificial Intelligence-Supported Development of Future Organizational Leaders

FW-HTF-P: Future of Work for Strength and Movement Training Professionals

FW-HTF-P: Collaborative Research: Participatory Design Process for Co-Creating Augmented Reality Based Education and Training Systems

Emergency & first response

FW-HTF: Future of Firefighting and Career Training – Advancing Cognitive, Communication, and Decision Making Capabilities of Firefighters

FW-HTF-P: Immersive Virtual Reality Instructional Modules for Response to Active Shooter Events

FW-HTF-P: Mitigating Risks in Future Police Work through Social Telerobotic Communication

FW-HTF-P: Transforming 911 dispatchers into Next-Generation 911 analysts: Sustainable innovation for training, workflow, and technology resources for NG911 emergency communications

FW-HTP-P: Firefighter Exoskeleton for Navigation In eXtreme Environments (FENIXE)

Heathcare

Attitudes toward LEAF patient monitoring sensors for turning patients in an academic intensive care unit (ICU)

Co-Development of Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring, and AI-based Tools for Inclusive Technology-Facilitated Healthcare Work of the Future

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-P: Supporting future crisis line work through the inclusive design of worker-facing tools that empower self-management of wellbeing and performance

FW-HTF-P: Augmenting Healthcare Professionals’ Training, Expertise Development, and Diagnostic Reasoning with AI-based Immersive Technologies in Telehealth

FW-HTF-P: D-CCC: Digital Health for Future of Community-Centered Care

FW-HTF-P: Engaging Stakeholders to Understand and Prepare for Future Work and Future Technology in the Home Care Setting

FW-HTF-P: Future Telemedicine Technologies and Multidisciplinary Workforce Readiness

FW-HTF-P: Mapping the Human-Technology Frontier to Improve Trauma Care: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Identify Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks

FW-HTF-P: Planning for the future of rural telerobotic surgical healthcare

FW-HTF-P: Teaming Transplant Professionals and Artificial Intelligence Tools to Reduce Kidney Discard

FW-HTF-P: The Future Matrix of Care: Communities, Networks, and Technologies

FW-HTF-R: Biometrics and AI to Support Expert Nurse Decision-Making

FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: Future expert work in the age of “black box”, data-intensive, and algorithmically augmented healthcare

FW-HTF-RL: Neurodiversity in Tech: Using Interactive Decision Theory and Augmented Reality to Enable Employment for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

FW-HTF-RL: Personalized Virtual Job Assistants to Prepare Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities for Entry Level IT Jobs

FW-HTF-RM Collaborative Research: Augmenting Remote Medical Procedure Training and Assistance with Spatial Computing and Volumetric Capture

FW-HTF-RM: Enhancing Future Work of Nursing Professionals through Collaborative Human-Robot Interfaces

Sometimes useful, sometimes an impediment: Intensive care workers’ attitudes toward advanced technologies

FW-HTF-RM: Introducing Patient-Specific Therapy Profiles in Electronic Health Records for Guiding Treatment Selection in the Era of Genomic Medicine

FW-HTF-P: Telemedicine at Scale: Expanding the Healthcare Workforce and Healthcare Access

Hospitality & services

FW-HTF-P: Supporting an Aging Workforce in Future Transportation and Delivery Work

FW-HTF-RL: Preparing the Future Workforce for the Era of Automated Vehicles

Upskilling Workers and Re-designing Workplaces for the Future of Automation in the Hospitality Industry

Inclusivity & ethics

FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Human Capabilities through Virtual Personal Embodied Assistants in Self-Contained Eyeglasses-Based Augmented Reality (AR) Systems

FW-HTF-P: Assessing the profession of ethical technology for the future of tech work

FW-HTF-P: Building Research Capacity by Technological Interventions in Support of Mixed-Ability Workplaces

FW-HTF-P: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Remote Conferencing on Work Practices and Equity in State Courts

FW-HTF-R: Collaborative Research: Virtual Meeting Support for Enhanced Well-Being and Equity for Game Developers

FW-HTF-R: Race, Gender and Class Equity in the Future of Work: Automation for the Artisanal Economy

FW-HTF-T/Collaborative Research: Occupational Exoskeletons and the Human-Technology Partnership: Achieving Scale and Integration into the Future of Work

W-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: Improving the Future of Retail and Warehouse Workers with Upper Limb Disabilities via Perceptive and Adaptive Soft Wearable Robots

FW-HTF-P: Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Improve Equity and Fairness in the Work of Municipal, Public Sector Decision Making

Knowledge workers

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF: Integrating Cognitive Science and Intelligent Systems to Enhance Geoscience Practice

FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: The Next Mobile Office: Safe and Productive Work in Automated Vehicles

FW-HTF-P/Collaborative Research: Designing a Market-based Optimization Tool for the Future of Work: Balancing Remote Work and Community Vitality in Post-COVID American Cities

FW-HTF-P: Managing Time and Work-Life Boundaries in Support of Future Remote Workers

FW-HTF-P: Office Work in the AI Age

FW-HTF-R: Human-Machine Teaming for Effective Data Work at Scale: Upskilling Defense Lawyers Working with Police and Court Process Data

FW-HTF-R: Impact of Artificial Intelligence Aids on Clinical Skill Acquisition, Atrophy and Adaptation

FW-HTF-P: Connectivity and the Future of Remote Work

Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RM: Intelligent Facilitation for Teams of the Future via Longitudinal Sensing in Context

Manufacturing & material handling

FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: Pre-Skilling Workers, Understanding Labor Force Implications and Designing Future Factory Human-Robot Workflows Using a Physical Simulation Platform

FW-HTF-P: Addressing the Wearable Technology Acceptance Gap for Industrial Workers Performing Repetitive Motion Work

FW-HTF-P: Design of Tools and Technologies for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Work

FW-HTF-P: Essential Decision-Making Skills for the Future Workforce in Smart Manufacturing

FW-HTF-P: Investigating Acceptability in the Workforce of Collaborative Robots that Provide and Request Assistance on an As-Needed Basis

FW-HTF-R: Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality

FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: Shared Autonomy for the Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous: Exploring Division of Labor for Humans and Robots to Transform the Recycling Sorting Industry

FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: The Future of Remanufacturing: Human-Robot Collaboration for Disassembly of End-of-Use Products

FW-HTF-RL: Co-worker Robots to Impact Seafood Processing (CRISP): Designs, Tools and Methods for Enhanced Worker Experience

FW-HTF-RM: Collaborative Research: Supervise It! Optimizing Intelligent Robot Integration Through Feedback to Workers and Supervisors

FW-HTF-RM: Human-Robot Collaboration for Manual Work

Full meeting agenda

Poster index

Meeting chat history

Meeting recordings

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2022 Annual PI Meeting – Harry Holzer

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Identifying Ethical Questions and the Implications for Policy

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Panel – Mapping the Human-Technology Partnership

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2022 Annual PI Meeting – Mandy Pant

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2022 Panel – Restructuring the Physical and Virtual Workspace

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2022 Annual PI Meeting – Nicole Smith

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2022 Annual PI Meeting – Panel

2021- 2022 Principal Investigator (PI) Meet-ups

On behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF), SRI International hosted a series of virtual meet-ups for PI/Co-PIs who have received funding through the NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) Big Idea Program.

The goal of the meet-ups was to connect FW-HTF stakeholders with one another, learn more about the portfolio of existing projects, exchange ideas, and form collaborations for prospective Future of Work projects. The meet-ups occurred in December 2021, February 2022, and April 2022. Posters were bundled by topic area and may be downloaded using the links below.

Meet-up 1 Presentations

  • Ethics, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Knowledge and Creative Work
  • Technology Acceptance, Workforce Preparation, Training and Skilling
  • Robotics, Wearables, and Future work

Meet-up 2 Presentations

  • Partnerships
  • Partnerships and Planning Grants
  • Access and Inclusivity

Meet-up 3 Presentation

  • FW-HTF Metrics for Success

Through its Big Idea initiative, NSF seeks to understand the future of work at the human-technology frontier and fund useful, convergent research on human-technology partnerships. NSF’s work will inform the design of new technologies to augment human performance, illuminate the emerging socio-technological landscape, understand the risks and benefits of new technologies for workers, and foster lifelong and pervasive learning.

The FW-HTF program charged the Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy (CISP) at SRI International to design and implement a series of virtual workshops. Workshop participants included representatives from industry, academia, non-profits, intergovernmental organizations, and state and federal government agencies.

2020 Workshops

Restructuring the physical and virtual workspace

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New technologies will enable non-traditional work arrangements, such as on-demand and flexible schedules, and, at the same time, allow for a more complete oversight of tasks and performance. Businesses and workers will have to define new, highly flexible relationships.

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Exploring the Human-Technology partnership

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Labor- and time-intensive tasks, as well as those with a high level of routineness, are among those most likely to face disruption and automation. Workplaces of all kinds face this disruption, and leaders and workers alike will need to rethink how they interact with their built environments and their new digitized coworkers.

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Fostering reskilling, upskilling, and lifelong learning

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The increased rate of change and diffusion of new technologies places a new imperative on employers to substantially increase investment in worker training. Upskilling in concert with technology investments offers challenges to both the business and the worker.

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Ethical questions and the implications for policy

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Although new technologies have the potential to provide enormous social benefit, they also carry with them social, ethical, and legal risks. The difficulty of auditing the component parts of an algorithm expose individuals and society as a whole to bias and injustice. The use of robots may displace workers, change the social and economic status of jobs, and affect our perception of self.

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Relevant links

Detailed workshop overview

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Video about the 2020 FW-HTF solicitation

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Contact FW-HTF program officers

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Boeing – virtual workshops

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The Future of Work homepage

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NSF’s 10 big Ideas

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2020 PI/Co-PI meeting for awardees of the FW-HTF Big Idea Program

On behalf of NSF, SRI International hosted a virtual PI/Co-PI meeting for FW-HTF Big Idea Program awardees on December 9, 2020. For the meeting, PIs and Co-PIs prepared lightning talk presentations highlighting their unique approach to convergent research. Slides from the presentations are bundled by topic area and may be downloaded from the links below.

  • New awardee-PI
  • Construction; infrastructure; agricultural sustainability; food
  • Workplace of the future; gig and self-employed workers
  • Health, healthcare; point of care
  • Knowledge; learning; learning systems; creative service workers, designers and educators
  • Skill enhancement, reskilling and collaboration
  • Manufacturing; transportation, logistics and emergency systems

Roland Stephen, Ph.D., has more than 20 years of leadership and project management experience in policy analysis, strategic planning, and program evaluation.

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