Human-swarm interaction is an emerging field encompassing questions related to biology, robotics, computerscience, human-computer interaction, and psychology. Swarms are large groups of individual entities thatenact group behaviors; biological examples include fish, birds and insects. Swarms overwhelm humans’abilities to monitor and interact with each entity. Human-robot and human-computer interaction metrics areinappropriate to describe human-swarm interactions alone due to the interaction challenges posed by swarms.It is unknown precisely how humans respond to interacting with swarms. The theory is that biological swarmmetrics may be appropriate for analyzing human-swarm interaction. Nine human-swarm interaction metriccategories derived from the biological and robotic swarm literature are presented, including example metricsfrom each category. This paper opens the discussion regarding what types of existing swarm metrics may beapplicable and what categories of metrics will be important for human-swarm interaction assessment.
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