Towards combining UAV and sensor operator roles in UAV-enabled visual search

HRI 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Living with Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 351-358

  Cooper, Joseph ^a   Goodrich, Michael A ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological interface; Human robot interaction; Unmanned aerial vehicle; User study

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VIDEO; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; GROUND BASED; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN OPERATOR; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION DISPLAY; ROUGH TERRAINS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SENSOR OPERATORS; VISUAL SEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 67650679705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1349822.1349868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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