Drone Near Me

Abstract

Personal drones are becoming more mainstream and are used for a variety of tasks, such as delivery and photography. The exposed blades in conventional drones raise serious safety concerns. To address this, commercial drones have been moving towards a safe-to-touch design or have increased safety by adding propeller guards. The affordances of safe-to-touch drones enable new types of touch-based human-drone interaction. Various applications have been explored, such as augmented sports and haptic feedback in virtual reality; however, it is unclear if individuals feel comfortable using direct touch and manipulation when interacting with safe-to-touch drones. A previous elicitation study showed how users naturally interact with drones. We replicated this study with an unsafe and a safe-to-touch drone, to find out if participants will instinctively use touch as a means of interacting with the safe-to-touch drone. We found that 58% of the participants used touch, and across all tasks 39% of interactions were touch-based. The proposed touch interactions were in agreement for 67% of the tasks, and users reported that interacting with the safe-to-touch drone was significantly less mentally demanding than the unsafe drone. CCS Concepts: •Human-centered computing →Empirical studies in interaction design;

Taking That Perfect Aerial Photo: A Synopsis of Interactions for Drone-based Aerial Photography and Video

“…Regarding RQ 1 , we found that the most frequently implemented system functions for drone video cameras have been taking photos [7,8,13,33,36] and selfies [1,[8][9][10]13,30,36], while commands for recording videos have been addressed to a less extent [7,36]. We identified six types of system functions relevant to our scope: (1) take selfie, (2) take picture, (3) take picture of a specified object, (4,5) start/stop video recording, and (6) stream video from the drone.…”

“…After screening the 77 references according to these eligibility criteria, we identified 10 papers that discussed, among others, controlling of the drone video camera [1,[7][8][9][10][11]13,30,33,36]. It is noteworthy that, except Chen et al's [11] work on view manipulation for drone photography and Chen et al's [10] direct pointing interaction technique for selfie drones, 5 none of the other works identified by our query had photography and/or video as their main scope of investigation for human-drone interaction.…”

“…Interactions with drones to take photographs and record videos from aerial perspectives are usually implemented with flypads or apps on smartphones and smartwatches. 1 However, for a novice user operating Mambo Fly, the experience of taking an aerial photo may be affected by how difficult it is to control the aerial perspective with the flypad or the touch UI. For a professional photographer employing a more advanced drone model, 2 ineffective interactions may have direct consequences on the process of taking an artistic photograph.…”

“…In contrast to these conventional input devices, prior work has examined other input modalities to interact with drones, such as gestures [8,9,13,36], but aerial photography and video have been rather neglected compared to the emphasis that has been put on controlling drones in flight, e.g., take off, land, fly sideways, etc. [1,7,8,13,30]. Consequently, more work is welcome to design meaningful interactions for drone-based aerial photography.…”

FlyMap

“…Interacting with flying robots (aka drones) presents specific differences to interacting with ground robots. In particular, touch can be dangerous (although not impossible [1,17]), and audio feedback is compromised because of the noise [10]. We find several proposed interaction strategies in the literature.…”