One of my summer project (2009) is to supervisor someone for awhile on a projected I designed. This year’s project is entited “Visualization for Effectively Co-located GIS Map Items” (title did take a while to invent). The official project paragraph is below along with a mockup of the idea we are implimenting.
“When information is sent [...]
Future emergency incident responses, including Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE), will incorporate robots. The ability to interact with robots and understand the resulting volumes of information requires a system of human-robot interfaces employing directable visualizations that provide information immediacy, relevancy, and sharing appropriate for each human’s responsibilities.
This dissertation conducted two modified Cognitive Tasks [...]
The emergency response incidents (e.g., Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) incidents or weapons of mass destruction) are evolving from a response involving humans (e.g. first responders, government officials, civilians) with equipment (e.g. protective suits, vehicles, sensors) to a response system combining humans and thinking machines (e.g. robots, information technology). The difference between equipment (e.g. fire engines, [...]
As robotic systems encompass larger numbers of individual robotic agents, interface design must provide better visual representations that account for factors affecting situational awareness. This project investigated different robotic team visualizations that varied in how much information was displayed: only individual robots, individual robots connected via a semitransparent team shape, and a solid team shape. [...]
As multiple robot systems become more common, it is necessary to develop scalable human-robot interfaces that permit the inclusion of additional robots without reducing the overall system performance. This project focused on the development of a scalable interface for a single human-to-multiple robot system with the intention to promote situation awareness and the management of [...]
This project compared two representative compass visualizations: top-down and in-world world-aligned to ascertain which one provided better metric judgment accuracy, lowers workload, provides better situational awareness, is perceived as easier to use, and is preferred. The evaluation results are in agreement with existing results regarding the effects of 2D and 3D views on the operators’ [...]
Decision Information Abstracted to a Relevant Encapsulation (DIARE) is based on the idea that evidence for a particular decision can be represented as a defined volume in the visualization’s information space spanning six components [x, y, e, t, s, m]. This defined volume becomes an object, or DIARE object, and contains information relating to that [...]
This project involved presented a novel approach to performing information abstraction (i.e., selection and grouping) and determining how each information item should be presented (i.e., its shape) in direct-able visualizations for the emergency incident response.