Human-Drone Interactions with Semi-Autonomous Cohorts of Collaborating Drones

Abstract

Research in human-drone interactions has primarily focused on cases in which a person interacts with a single drone as an active controller, recipient of information, or a social companion; or cases in which an individual, or a team of operators interacts with a swarm of drones as they perform some coordinated flight patterns. In this position paper we explore a third scenario in which multiple humans and drones collaborate in an emergency response scenario. We discuss different types of interactions, and draw examples from current DroneResponse project.

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction co-located with the 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2617/