Exploring interaction modalities for a selfie drone

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.…”

“…Regarding RQ 2 , mid-air gestures [1,7,8,13,30,33,36], voice commands [1,7,8,13], direct pointing and touch input on mobile devices [10,11] have been the main modalities in the scientific literature to control drone-based aerial photography and video, complementing conventional flypads and remote controllers. 6 Figure 3 illustrates a dictionary of interactions representing associations between system functions and commands extracted from the papers examined in our survey.…”

“…Running the above query on the abstracts of the papers indexed in the ACM resulted in a total number of 77 references. We removed references not relevant to our scope, such as papers not discussing take selfie hold an imaginary camera and click the shutter button Cauchard et al [8] take selfie smartphone points to the drone Chen et al [10] view control (planar translation) one-finger drag Chen et al [11] view control (vertical translation) pinch in/out Chen et al [11] view control (rotation) two-finger drag Chen et al [11] take selfie hold an imaginary camera or phone in one hand Seuter et al [36] take selfie perform the "frame" gesture with the hands apart Cauchard et al [8] Lee et al [30], MohaimenianPour and Vaughan [33] take selfie perform the "frame" gesture with both hands together E et al [13], Seuter et al [36] start/stop video recording perform the "frame" gesture with both hands together Seuter et al [36] take picture perform the "frame" gesture with both hands together E et al [13], Seuter et al [36] Figure 3: A dictionary of interactions with system functions and commands for drone-based aerial photography and video.…”

“…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. 5 Both works published as posters.…”

A Multi‐Person Selfie System via Augmented Reality

“…The use of a selfie stick may help partially resolve this issue, but the aforementioned distortion effect still remains. Another interesting way to take a group selfie is via a drone , as done by Chen et al [CLY15]; however, it involves more cost, and there is at least a person who needs to control the drone. In addition, due to the potential risk, currently it may not always be possible to fly a drone unless a permit is acquired in advance.…”