Designing a user-centered interaction interface for human–swarm teaming
Designing a user-centered interaction interface for human–swarm teaming
A key challenge in human–swarm interaction is to design a usable interface that allows the human operators to monitor and control a scalable swarm. In our study, we restrict the interactions to only one-to-one communications in local neighborhoods between UAV-UAV and operator-UAV. This type of proximal interactions will decrease the cognitive complexity of the human–swarm interaction to O(1). In this paper, a user study with 100 participants provides evidence that visualizing a swarm as a heat map is more effective in addressing usability and acceptance in human–swarm interaction. We designed an interactive interface based on the users’ preference and proposed a controlling mechanism that allows a human operator to control a large swarm of UAVs. We evaluated the proposed interaction interface with a complementary user study. Our testbed and results establish a benchmark to study human–swarm interaction where a scalable swarm can be managed by a single operator.
Soorati, Mohammad Divband
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Clark, Jediah
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Ghofrani, Javad
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Tarapore, Danesh
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.
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5 November 2021
Soorati, Mohammad Divband
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Clark, Jediah
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Ghofrani, Javad
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Tarapore, Danesh
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.
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Soorati, Mohammad Divband, Clark, Jediah, Ghofrani, Javad, Tarapore, Danesh and Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.
(2021)
Designing a user-centered interaction interface for human–swarm teaming.
Drones, 5 (4), [131].
(doi:10.3390/drones5040131).
Abstract
A key challenge in human–swarm interaction is to design a usable interface that allows the human operators to monitor and control a scalable swarm. In our study, we restrict the interactions to only one-to-one communications in local neighborhoods between UAV-UAV and operator-UAV. This type of proximal interactions will decrease the cognitive complexity of the human–swarm interaction to O(1). In this paper, a user study with 100 participants provides evidence that visualizing a swarm as a heat map is more effective in addressing usability and acceptance in human–swarm interaction. We designed an interactive interface based on the users’ preference and proposed a controlling mechanism that allows a human operator to control a large swarm of UAVs. We evaluated the proposed interaction interface with a complementary user study. Our testbed and results establish a benchmark to study human–swarm interaction where a scalable swarm can be managed by a single operator.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 November 2021
Published date: 5 November 2021
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472518
ISSN: 2504-446X
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