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Effective user interface design for rescue robotics

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M. Waleed Kadous,

Raymond Ka-Man Sheh,

Claude SammutAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction

Pages 250 - 257

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121241.1121285

Published: 02 March 2006 Publication History

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Until robots are able to autonomously navigate, carry out a mission and report back to base, effective human-robot interfaces will be an integral part of any practical mobile robot system. This is especially the case for robot-assisted Urban Search and Rescue (USAR). Unfamiliar and unstructured environments, unreliable communications and many sensors combine to make the job of a human operator, and hence the interface designer challenging.This paper presents the design, implementation and deployment of a human-robot interface for the teleoperated USAR research robot, textsfCASTER. Proven HCI-based user interface design principles were adopted in order to produce an interface that was intuitive and minimised learning time while maximising effectiveness.The human-robot interface was deployed by Team CASualty in the 2005 RoboCup Rescue Robot League competition. This competition allows a wide variety of approaches to USAR research to be evaluated in a realistic environment. Despite the operator having less than one month of experience, Team CASualty came 3rd, beating teams that had far longer to train their operators. In particular, the ease with which the robot could be driven and high quality information gathered played a crucial part in Team CASualty's success. Further empirical evaluations of the system on a group of twelve users as well as members of the public further reinforce our belief that this interface is quick to learn, easy to use and effective.

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HRI '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction

March 2006

376 pages

ISBN:1595932941

DOI:10.1145/1121241

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Michael A. Goodrich
Brigham Young University USA
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Naval Research Laboratory, USA
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Idaho National Laboratory, USA

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