Presentation
Birdie, Birdie in the Sky: Practitioner’s Design Guidance for Addressing Human Factors Engineering Challenges for Uncrewed Air Vehicles with AI Functionality
SessionPoster Session 2
DescriptionIn recent years, drones have transitioned from cutting-edge technology to an integral part of daily life. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now used for a variety of applications, ranging from recreational use to critical commercial and governmental purposes. While there has been a great deal of human factors (HF) research on UAVs and uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs), according to Chen et. al., (2007) current designs still experience high instances of human errors. This challenge is exacerbated by the increase in the volumes of UAVs and the increasing influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) incorporated in drone design. AI adds additional HF challenges associated with situation awareness, trust, and over-trust. The goal of this paper is to provide a construct and tool for HF practitioners to optimize design focus for various mission user interfaces to improve AI applications for drone performance and operator ease of use and satisfaction. While there have been advances in HFE in UAV control, there remains design challenges. This practitioner’s paper presents a construct (Table 1) for addressing these challenges by matching effective human factors design attributes with UAV mission goals to reduce workload, decrease human error, and provide a more successful human machine team for UAV operations.
Event Type
Poster
TimeWednesday, October 15th5:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
LocationRiverside East