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Usability Evaluation of High-Level User Assistance for Robot Mission Specification
Usability Evaluation of High-Level User Assistance for Robot Mission Specification
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Arkin, Ronald C.
Endo, Yoichiro
MacKenzie, Douglas Christopher
Endo, Yoichiro
MacKenzie, Douglas Christopher
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Abstract
MissionLab is a mission specification system that
implements a hybrid deliberative and reactive control
architecture for autonomous mobile robots. The user creates
and executes the robot mission plans through its graphical
user interface. As robot deployments become more common in
highly stressful situations, such as in dealing with explosives or
biohazards, the usability of their mission specification system
becomes critical. To address this need, a mission-planning
“wizard” has been recently integrated into MissionLab. By
retrieving and adapting past successful mission plans stored in
its database, this new feature is designed to simplify the user’s
planning process. The latest formal usability experiments,
reported in this paper, testing for usability improvements in
terms of speed of the mission planning process, accuracy of the
produced mission plans, and ease of use is conducted. This
paper introduces the mission-planning wizard, describes the
usability experiments (including design), and discusses the
results in detail.
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2002
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