TY - GEN
T1 - Fostering Trust Through User Interface Design in Multi-Drone Search and Rescue
AU - Ahlskog, Johanna
AU - Bahodi, Maria Theresa
AU - Lugmayr, Artur
AU - Merritt, Timothy
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PY - 2024/9/16
Y1 - 2024/9/16
N2 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly used in search and rescue (SAR) missions, with pilots transitioning from manual control of single drones to more collaborative tasks orchestrating semi-autonomous fleets. Designing user interfaces to support UAV pilots effectively is crucial to improving the success of search missions. We developed two versions of a multi-drone SAR system prototype to simulate SAR missions and evaluated them with professional UAV SAR pilots in Sweden. Both versions showed the flight paths of the UAVs, yet in one version, a heatmap was overlayed to provide information from a lost person model. We evaluated situational awareness (SA), cognitive workload, and trust in SAR scenarios. Results showed reduced cognitive load and increased trust with the heatmap-guided interface. Findings from the contextual interviews suggest three design implications for increasing trust and acceptance for future multi-drone user interfaces.
AB - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly used in search and rescue (SAR) missions, with pilots transitioning from manual control of single drones to more collaborative tasks orchestrating semi-autonomous fleets. Designing user interfaces to support UAV pilots effectively is crucial to improving the success of search missions. We developed two versions of a multi-drone SAR system prototype to simulate SAR missions and evaluated them with professional UAV SAR pilots in Sweden. Both versions showed the flight paths of the UAVs, yet in one version, a heatmap was overlayed to provide information from a lost person model. We evaluated situational awareness (SA), cognitive workload, and trust in SAR scenarios. Results showed reduced cognitive load and increased trust with the heatmap-guided interface. Findings from the contextual interviews suggest three design implications for increasing trust and acceptance for future multi-drone user interfaces.
KW - Cognitive workload
KW - Drone swarm
KW - Human-drone interaction
KW - Multi-drone systems
KW - Search & Rescue
KW - Situational awareness
KW - Trust
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205386200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3686038.3686052
DO - 10.1145/3686038.3686052
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85205386200
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - TAS '24
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Y2 - 15 September 2024 through 18 September 2024
ER -