TY - GEN
T1 - Drones in Firefighting
T2 - 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, MobileTogether, MobileHCI 2021
AU - Alon, Omri
AU - Rabinovich, Sharon
AU - Fyodorov, Chana
AU - Cauchard, Jessica R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/9/27
Y1 - 2021/9/27
N2 - This work presents a user-centered perspective on the integration of semi-autonomous drones in firefighting. We first present the outcomes of an interview with the leading officers in Israel, which revealed opportunities and barriers in drone integration, as well as current usage and future needs. We envision a future where firefighters and drones can directly communicate with each other and propose the use of gestures in collocated environments. We then present the results of an elicitation study with operational firefighters (N=9), which resulted in a set of tasks for drones and matching user-defined gestures that can be performed in highly constrained environments. This research opens the space for future collocated human-drone interaction in emergency response and other complex professional settings.
AB - This work presents a user-centered perspective on the integration of semi-autonomous drones in firefighting. We first present the outcomes of an interview with the leading officers in Israel, which revealed opportunities and barriers in drone integration, as well as current usage and future needs. We envision a future where firefighters and drones can directly communicate with each other and propose the use of gestures in collocated environments. We then present the results of an elicitation study with operational firefighters (N=9), which resulted in a set of tasks for drones and matching user-defined gestures that can be performed in highly constrained environments. This research opens the space for future collocated human-drone interaction in emergency response and other complex professional settings.
KW - Collocated Interaction
KW - Elicitation Study
KW - Firefighting
KW - Harsh Environments.
KW - Human Drone Interaction
KW - Human Machine Teaming
KW - UAV
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107429022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3447526.3472030
DO - 10.1145/3447526.3472030
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107429022
T3 - Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, MobileTogether
BT - Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 27 September 2021 through 1 October 2021
ER -