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Personal drones are becoming more mainstream and are used for a variety of tasks, such as delivery and photography. The exposed blades in conventional drones raise serious safety concerns. To address this, commercial drones have been moving towards a safe-to-touch design or have increased safety by adding propeller guards. The affordances of safe-to-touch drones enable new types of touch-based human-drone interaction. Various applications have been explored, such as augmented sports and haptic feedback in virtual reality; however, it is unclear if individuals feel comfortable using direct touch and manipulation when interacting with safe-to-touch drones. A previous elicitation study showed how users naturally interact with drones. We replicated this study with an unsafe and a safe-to-touch drone, to find out if participants will instinctively use touch as a means of interacting with the safe-to-touch drone. We found that 58% of the participants used touch, and across all tasks 39% of interactions were touch-based. The proposed touch interactions were in agreement for 67% of the tasks, and users reported that interacting with the safe-to-touch drone was significantly less mentally demanding than the unsafe drone.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1145/3130899 | Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Drone,UAV,elicitation study,human-drone interaction,quadcopter,touch interaction | Journal | 1 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3 | 2474-9567 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Parastoo Abtahi | 1 | 17 | 3.69 |
| David Y. Zhao | 2 | 1 | 0.36 |
| L. E. Jane | 3 | 78 | 6.40 |
| James A. Landay | 4 | 7457 | 653.08 |