Abstract
Using remote control transmitters is a common way to control a drone. For the future, we envision drones that are intuitively controllable with new input devices. One possibility could be the use of one-hand controllers. Here, we present an exploration of using a 3-D mouse as a controller for human-drone interaction. We ran a pre-study that investigated the users’ natural spatial mapping between controller and drone dimensions. Based on these results we developed our prototype that shows the feasibility of our concept. A series of flight tests were conducted and the mapping between controller and flight movements were iteratively improved. In this paper, we present our development process and the implementation of our prototype.
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This pre-study has been presented before at the international workshop on Human-Drone Interaction (iHDI ’19) at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19) in Glasgow, United Kingdom [2].
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This work is an extended version of the paper “Investigating users’ natural spatial mapping between drone dimensions and one-hand drone controllers” that has been presented at the international workshop on Human-Drone Interaction (iHDI ’19) at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19) in Glasgow, United Kingdom [2].
Parts of this work have been included in Rami Zaitoon’s master thesis “Prototypical Implementation of a One-hand Controller for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lemgo, Germany [19].
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Büttner, S., Zaitoon, R., Heinz, M., Röcker, C. (2020). One-Hand Controller for Human-Drone Interaction – a Human-Centered Prototype Development. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49062-1_36
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