Influence of perspective-taking and mental rotation abilities in space teleoperation

Menchaca-Brandan, M. Alejandra; Liu, Andrew M.; Oman, Charles M.; Natapoff, Alan

doi:10.1145/1228716.1228753

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“…This was demonstrated through a task that, we felt, had real-life relevance, since it involves skills that might be used by cartographers or hikers in their respective activities. Accordingly, the present results can be added to the body of evidence demonstrating that tasks with real-life applicability relate to psychometric test performance (Hambrick et al, 2012;Liu, Oman, Natapoff, & Coleman, 2008;Menchaca-Brandan, Liu, Oman, & Natapoff, 2007).…”

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Dimensional transformation in tests of spatial and environmental cognition

Iwanowska

Voyer

2013

Mem Cogn

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In previous research, it has been argued that spatial performance on psychometric tests might be accounted for, in part, by the need for test-takers to transform mentally two-dimensional (2-D) test items into a three-dimensional (3-D) representation. With this in mind, the Landscape Perception Test (LPT) was designed to isolate the 2-D to 3-D (and vice versa) transformational aspect of spatial cognition. Gender differences were used as an indirect means to examine the contribution of the 2-D to 3-D transformation to spatial performance. Since the LPT was designed by means of an image relevant to geospatial cognition, measures of environmental cognition, as well as experience in various activities, were also examined. One hundred thirty undergraduate students (66 females and 64 males) completed the Childhood Activities Questionnaire, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Test, the Visualization of Views (VV) Test, the Perspective Taking/Spatial Orientation Test, and the LPT. Results showed higher scores for men than for women on LPT items requiring 2-D to 3-D conversion (LPT23), but not on those requiring the reverse operation. In addition, only the LPT23 produced significant indirect effects of gender on VV Test performance. Performance on the tests was also correlated with environmental cognition and previous experience with spatial activities. The results suggest that dimensional transformation might be a factor significantly contributing to spatial performance. Psychometric aspects of the LPT are also discussed.

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Dimensional transformation in tests of spatial and environmental cognition

Iwanowska

Voyer

2013

Mem Cogn

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“…In such a case, the operator constantly sends control commands to the robot in the same manner, however, robot movement directions could vary depending on the robot's current orientation at any given point of time. The operator has to deal with this mental rotation problem [17]. The operator has to predict the robot's movement direction, convert it to input direction and control the joystick accordingly.…”

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An Object-Defined Remote Robot Control Interface

Suzuki

Terashima

Takeuchi

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Journal of Information Processing

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Abstract:In this paper, the authors propose a new remote robot control interface that reduces the complexity of robot control. The proposed interface constraints the robot's movements depending on the target object that the operator wants to observe. The interface displays the constraints to the operator on a screen with the help of Augmented Reality (AR) technology. We named the interface "Object-defined remote robot control interface" because the interface provides suitable procedures for the objects that need to be operated on. The interface receives information about the robot and candidate objects from a camera that has been set up to capture a bird's-eye view of the target environment and displays this information on a touch screen display. When the operator selects an object as the target by touching it on the display, constrained tracks for the robot's movements and their corresponding AR representations are generated on the screen. A block assembly task was conducted to evaluate this interface. The results showed the system's effectiveness in terms of both task completion time and operation time.

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“…SpA has been found to be a significant factor in virtual environment navigation (Stanney & Salvendy, 1995), learning to use a medical teleoperation device (Eyal & Tendick, 2001), target search task (Chen et al, 2008;Chen & Joyner, 2009), and robotics task performance (Cassenti et al, 2009;Lathan & Tracey, 2002;Menchaca-Brandan et al, 2007). For example, Lathan and Tracey (2002) demonstrated that people with higher SpA performed better in a teleoperation task through a maze.…”

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Effectiveness of Concurrent Performance of Military and Robotics Tasks and Effects of Cueing and Individual Differences in a Simulated Reconnaissance Environment

Chen¹

2009

Advances in Human-Robot Interaction

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Introduction BackgroundThe goal of this research is to examine if and how aided target recognition (AiTR) cueing capabilities facilitates multitasking (including operating a robot) by gunners in a military tank crewstation environment. Specifically, we examine if gunners are able to effectively perform their primary task -maintaining local security -while performing a pair of secondary tasks: (1) managing a robot and (2) communications with fellow crew members. According to Mitchell (2005), who used the Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT) to examine the workload of the crew of a future tank system, the gunner is the most viable option for performing the robotics control tasks compared to the other two positions (i.e. vehicle commander and driver). She found that the gunner had the fewest instances of overload and, therefore, may be able to assume control of the robot. However, she also discovered that there were instances in the model when the gunner dropped his/her primary tasks of detecting and engaging targets to perform robotics tasks, which could be catastrophic for the team and mission during a real operation. If the gunner is the individual who will most likely be assigned the responsibility of robotics control, then it is important to consider what design changes will be necessary to allow successful multitasking without a critical performance decrement in maintaining local security. Based on Mitchell's modeling work, Chen and Joyner (2009) conducted a simulation experiment and the results showed that, when the robotics operator had to perform robot targeting and local security (i.e. gunner's tasks) at the same time, both workload and performance degraded, compared with a baseline single-task condition. More specifically, as the robotics task became more difficult, the participants' gunnery task performance became worse and their workload assessment also increased. Indeed, past research in dual task performance has shown that operators may encounter difficulties when both tasks involve focal vision. For example, Horrey and Wickens (2004) demonstrated that participants could not effectively detect road hazards while operating in-vehicle-devices. Additionally, Murray (1994) found that as the number of monitored displays increased, the operators' reaction time for their target search tasks also increased linearly. In fact, response times almost www.intechopen.com Advances in Human-Robot Interaction 234 doubled when the number of displays increased from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3 (a slope of 1.94 was obtained). Since both the gunnery and the robotics tasks in Chen and Joyner were heavily visual, we considered tapping into another modality -touch. Our hypothesis was that parsing additional information by using relatively untapped modalities might alleviate the resource demands and could help the operator effectively transition between displays (Wickens, 2002). Tactile cueingIn the current study, we examined if and how tactile cueing, which delivered simulated AiTR capabilities (i.e. cues to t...

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Influence of perspective-taking and mental rotation abilities in space teleoperation

Cited by 68 publications

References 15 publications

Dimensional transformation in tests of spatial and environmental cognition

Dimensional transformation in tests of spatial and environmental cognition

An Object-Defined Remote Robot Control Interface

Effectiveness of Concurrent Performance of Military and Robotics Tasks and Effects of Cueing and Individual Differences in a Simulated Reconnaissance Environment

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