Human-Drone Interactions with Semi-Autonomous Cohorts of Collaborating Drones
This work addresses the problem of enhancing emergency response coordination for first responders and drone operators, but it is incremental as it builds on existing human-drone interaction research.
The paper explores a third scenario of human-drone interaction where multiple humans and drones collaborate in emergency response, discussing different interaction types and drawing examples from the DroneResponse project.
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.