A Decomposition of UAV-Related Situation Awareness
October 2005
Jill L. Drury, The MITRE Corporation
Laurel Riek, The MITRE Corporation
Nathan Rackliffe, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a fine-grained decomposition of situation
awareness (SA) as it pertains to the use of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), and uses this decomposition to understand the
types of SA attained by operators of the Desert Hawk UAV.
Since UAVs are airborne robots, we adapt a definition previously
developed for human-robot awareness after learning about the SA
needs of operators through observations and interviews. We
describe the applicability of UAV-related SA for people in three
roles: UAV operators, air traffic controllers, and pilots of manned
aircraft in the vicinity of UAVs. Using our decomposition, UAV
interaction designers can specify SA needs and analysts can
evaluate a UAV interface’s SA support with greater precision and
specificity than can be attained using other SA definitions.
Additional Search Keywords
Situation awareness, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), user
interaction requirements, interaction design, evaluation
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