Comparing performance and situation awareness in USAR unit tasks in a virtual and real environment

Comparing performance and situation awareness in USAR unit tasks in a virtual and real environment

Horsch, C.H.G.
Smets, N.J.J.M.
Neerincx, M.A.
Cuijpers, R.H.

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Intelligent Systems

2013-05-12

A convenient way to test Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) robots would be in virtual environments (VEs). Evaluations in VEs are generally accepted as alternative for real scenarios. There are obvious differences between operation in a real and virtual environment. Nonetheless, the current experiment showed no significant differences in situation awareness (SA) and performance during several elementary tasks (e.g. slalom) between a virtual world and a previous experiment in reality (Mioch, Smets, & Neerincx, 2012). Only small dependencies between the unit tasks were found. The effect of individual differences (like gender, km driven per year, and gaming experience), were significant for certain elementary tasks. Testing robots in virtual environments could still be useful even if differences between VE and reality exist, since comparisons of different conditions in VE seems to have the same results as the same comparison in the field (Bishop & Rohrmann, 2003; Van Diggelen, Looije, Mioch, Neerincx, & Smets, 2012).

test USAR robots
comparison virtual reality and reality
experiment
elementary task
situation awareness
performance

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ISCRAM

978-3-923704-80-4

ISCRAM 2013: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Baden-Baden, Germany, 12-15 May 2013

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