Models of human behaviour

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Abstract

To establish a successful integration of humans into a cyber-physical system, many challenges have to be overcome in the context of the Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop. For a seamless integration of humans, communication latency constraints and safety requirements have to be met. Those can only be ensured when there is a clear understanding of human interactions, which directly calls for computational models of human goal-directed and habitual behaviours. In this chapter, we report on recent insights from cognitive neuroscience and formal methods towards models of human behaviours. These cover contextual inference as a cornerstone for faithfully modelling the assumptions under which a human operates stochastic operational models to improve reasoning about human behaviours with rigorous formal techniques, and how low-latency constraints can be formally guaranteed within these assumptions and models. We also propose new modelling principles from neuroscience that bridge the gap between the human brain and computation.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHumans, Robots and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet
PublisherElsevier
Pages207-220
Number of pages14
ISBN (electronic)978-0-443-30044-8
ISBN (print)978-0-443-30045-5
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/212487882
ORCID /0000-0001-8047-4094/work/212491252

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Keywords

  • Contextual inference, formal methods, negative latency, neuroscience, reinforcement learning