HCI 2015
International

Best Paper Award for the Human Interface and the Management of Information thematic area, in the context of HCI International 2015, 2-7 August 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Certificate for Best Paper Award of the Human Interface and the Management of Information thematic area
conferred to

Anna Skinner, Jack Vice and Lisa Baraniecki
(AnthroTronix, Inc., USA)

for the paper entitled

"Development of Tactile and Gestural Displays for Navigation, Communication, and Robotic Control"

Presented in the context of
HCI International 2015
2-7 August 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Paper Abstract
"Cognitive demands on dismounted Soldiers are ever increasing. This is an investigation into using gestural controls and a tactile display vest to reduce cognitive, physical, and temporal demands as relevant to covert communications and robot control. Data was collected on 31 Soldiers for this experiment-based evaluation consisting of task demands of a typical rural reconnaissance patrol deconstructed into specific tasks involving a platoon leader role, a squad leader role, and a robot controller role. Results found that use of an instrumented glove and a tactile display vest was associated with a higher average percentage and faster average speed of signal detections when compared to traditional hand and arm signals. Glove-based robot control was also compared with traditional methods and evaluated."

The full paper is available through SpringerLink, provided that you have proper access rights.