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Drone & Wo: Cultural Influences on Human-Drone Interaction Techniques

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James A. Landay,

Jessica R. CauchardAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 6794 - 6799

https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025755

Published: 02 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

As drones become ubiquitous, it is important to understand how cultural differences impact human-drone interaction. A previous elicitation study performed in the USA illustrated how users would intuitively interact with drones. We replicated this study in China to gain insight into how these user-defined interactions vary across the two cultures. We found that as per the US study, Chinese participants chose to interact primarily using gesture. However, Chinese participants used multi-modal interactions more than their US counterparts. Agreement for many proposed interactions was high within each culture. Across cultures, there were notable differences despite similarities in interaction modality preferences. For instance, culturally-specific gestures emerged in China, such as a T-shape gesture for stopping the drone. Participants from both cultures anthropomorphized the drone, and welcomed it into their personal space. We describe the implications of these findings on designing culturally-aware and intuitive human-drone interaction.

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Drone & Wo: Cultural Influences on Human-Drone Interaction Techniques
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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