Proposed Techniques for Extending Ecological Interface Design to Tactile Displays: Using Tactile Cues to Enhance UAV Interface Design

Abstract

There is little guidance for designers on how to map information requirements to tactile displays. In this paper, we propose new directions for carrying out the mapping of tactile displays based on semantic mapping techniques used in auditory and visual displays. We discuss these techniques in relation to the design of a multimodal ground control station (GCS) for unmanned aerial vehicles to improve the visuallydominated GCS interface. We hope that this approach will encourage the design of better, safer, and more intuitive UAV GCS interfaces to reduce the frequency of mishaps related to human error.

Multi-Sensory Urban Search-and-Rescue Robotics: Improving the Operator’s Omni-Directional Perception

“…Previous results obtained from other research groups have shown improvement in performance when using vibro-tactile displays (Bloomfield and Badler, 2007;Blom and Beckhaus, 2010) and enhanced interfaces (Johnson et al, 2003). Based on these results, study #1 claimed that H1.1.…”

“…Based on previous results (Johnson et al, 2003;Bloomfield and Badler, 2007;Blom and Beckhaus, 2010) and a pilot study, we hypothesized that H2.1. Using either vibro-tactile feedback interface should lead to an improvement in performance in the search task compared to the control case; H2.2.…”

“…Audio feedback can be used to display robot data in analog (e.g., direct sound stream) or symbolic (e.g., speech synthesis and sound icons) forms (Gröhn et al, 2005). It has been shown that its use can improve realism of virtual scenes (Blom and Beckhaus, 2010), user situation awareness (SA) (Kaber et al, 2006), search (Gröhn et al, 2005), and remote vehicle-control performance (Nehme and Cummings, 2006).…”

“…Tactile cues have been used as display devices on various parts of the body such as the forehead, tongue, palms, wrist, elbows, chest, abdomen, back, thighs, knees, and foot sole (Lindeman, 2003;Zelek and Asmar, 2003). Vibro-tactile feedback has been associated with improved reaction (Van Erp and Van Veen, 2004) and completion time (Lindeman et al, 2005), task effectiveness, and useful for providing directional cues (Arrabito et al, 2009), alerts (Elliott et al, 2009), and 3D information (Bloomfield and Badler, 2007).…”

Perceptions of Temporal Synchrony in Multimodal Displays

“…While this research is still limited, EID has been used in the design of auditory sonifications (Sanderson, Anderson, & Watson, 2000) and haptic interfaces (Arrabito, Ho, Au, Keillor, Rutley, Lambert, & Hou, 2009). Past EID interfaces have explored the use of new perceptual judgements in their respective modalities that could be used by interface designers to facilitate direct perception.…”