Investigating users' natural spatial mapping between drone dimensions and one-hand drone controllers

Sebastian Büttner (1, 2) , Rami Zaitoon (1) , Mario Heinz (1) , Carsten Röcker (1, 3)

1 OWL UAS - Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences
2 TU Clausthal - Clausthal University of Technology
3 Fraunhofer IOSB-INA - Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation - Industrial Automation Branch

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, e.g. 3-D mice. While developing such a device, we investigated the users' natural spatial mapping between controller and drone dimensions. In this paper we present our insights about this mapping and show why relative position control is an important control concept for novice users.

Mots clés: human - drone interaction; unmanned aerial vehicle; 3D mouse; spatial mapping

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Sebastian Büttner, Rami Zaitoon, Mario Heinz, Carsten Röcker. Investigating users' natural spatial mapping between drone dimensions and one-hand drone controllers. 1st International Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile [ENAC], May 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-02128399⟩