Design and Test of an adaptive augmented reality interface to manage systems to assist critical missions
This work addresses the challenge of managing complex missions for rescue teams, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing AR and UAV technologies without specifying major breakthroughs.
The researchers tackled the problem of improving situational awareness and human efficiency in critical operations by developing an adaptive augmented reality interface for controlling unmanned aerial vehicles to assist rescue teams, with results indicating AR's potential as an important tool in emergency situations.
We present a user interface (UI) based on augmented reality (AR) with head-mounted display (HMD) for improving situational awareness during critical operation and improve human efficiency on operations. The UI displays contextual information as well as accepts orders given from the headset to control unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for assisting the rescue team. We established experiments where people had been put in a stressful situation and are asked to resolve a complex mission using a headset and a computer. Comparing both technologies, our results show that augmented reality has the potential to be an important tool to help those involved in the emergency situation.