Lewis, Michael and Chien, Shih-Yi and Mehrotra, Siddharth and Chakraborty, Nilanjan and Sycara, Katia
(2014)
Task Switching and Single vs. Multiple Alarms for Supervisory Control of Multiple Robots.
In: HCI International 2014 (16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), 22 June 2014 - 27 June 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Abstract
Foraging tasks, such as search and rescue or reconnaissance, in which UVs are either relatively sparse and unlikely to interfere with one another or employ automated path planning, form a broad class of applications in which multiple robots can be controlled sequen-tially in a round-robin fashion. Such human-robot systems can be described as a queuing sys-tem in which the human acts as a server while robots presenting requests for service are the jobs. The possibility of improving system performance through well-known scheduling tech-niques is an immediate consequence. Unfortunately, real human-multirobot systems are more complex often requiring operator monitoring and other ancillary tasks. Improving perfor-mance through scheduling (jobs) under these conditions requires minimizing the effort ex-pended monitoring and directing the operator’s attention to the robot offering the most gain. Two experiments investigating scheduling interventions are described. The first compared a system in which all anomalous robots were alarmed (Open-queue), one in which alarms were presented singly in the order in which they arrived (FIFO) and a Control condition without alarms. The second experiment employed failures of varying difficulty supporting an optimal shortest job first (SJF) policy. SJF, FIFO, and Open-queue conditions were compared. In both experiments performance in directed attention conditions was poorer than predicted. A possi-ble explanation based on effects of volition in task switching is proposed
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| Lewis, Michael | | | | | Chien, Shih-Yi | | | | | Mehrotra, Siddharth | | | | | Chakraborty, Nilanjan | | | | | Sycara, Katia | | | |
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| Date: |
June 2014 |
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Publication |
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No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
HCI International 2014 |
| Publisher: |
Springer |
| Place of Publication: |
Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
| Event Title: |
HCI International 2014 (16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction) |
| Event Dates: |
22 June 2014 - 27 June 2014 |
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Conference |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Information Sciences > Information Science |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2014 14:18 |
| Last Modified: |
01 Nov 2017 12:55 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21819 |
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