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Abstract — Human-swarm interaction (HSI) consists of bidi-rectional interaction between a human operator and swarms of autonomous robots. In HSI, a human operator directs robots to carry out tasks. However, in order to direct a swarm of robots, the operator must receive appropriate feedback about what is going on in the swarm. In this paper, we argue that self-organised mechanisms should be responsible for providing feedback in HSI sys-tems, and argue against the current approach that involves an extra ‘intepretation layer ’ layer dependent on additional infrastructure and modelling. We present a recent study that we conducted in the field of HSI, in which a human operator had to guide groups of robots to designated task completion zones. Based on this study, we propose some initial steps towards our vision of self-organised feedback. I