Print Email Facebook Twitter Supported scheduling of unmanned vehicles for military operations Title Supported scheduling of unmanned vehicles for military operations Author Schutter, A.S.C. Contributor Neerincx, M.A. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Intelligent Systems Programme Computer Science Date 2016-11-01 Abstract The role of military operators is changing towards supervision of multiple unmanned vehicles. This places new demands on the operators that require supportive systems. This study focused on the design of a system to support the user to allocate high-level tasks to unmanned vehicles for military operations and that respects the objectives and restrictions of the user. The domain analysis resulted in an abstraction decomposition space for the domain and nine proposals of patterns for interaction design. This includes a method to align the user and system objectives and to provide additional transparency of the system about a proposed schedule’s compliance with the user objectives. The effect of the additional transparency was investigated in a user study using a prototype of the system on user performance, situational awareness (SA), trust and cognitive task load. However, there was insufficient statistical power to conclude that the additional transparency, compared to a condition without additional transparency, nor the order of these conditions, had a direct or interaction effect on the participants, except for a learning effect on SA. Besides other interesting effects, the experiment showed that the order of the conditions with and without additional transparency had an effect on the use of it and a positive attitude of participant towards the system resulted in automation-induced compliance. Subject military domainsystem transparencyaligning objectivesunmanned vehicleshuman factorssituational awarenessscheduling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:abc7afc4-694c-4be8-b540-cbed65f7d208 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Schutter, A.S.C. Files PDF Master thesis ASchutter s ... rators.pdf 17.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:abc7afc4-694c-4be8-b540-cbed65f7d208/datastream/OBJ/view