Human adaptive GUI design for teleoperation system

This paper addresses a human adaptive user interface design for teleoperation system. An advantage of a teleoperation system is human abilities are included. For example, human has abilities to predict some trouble and make a global plan. These abilities contribute to flexible and intelligent operation which autonomous robots cannot achieve. On the other hand, a major problem of the teleoperation is that quality and quantity of feedback information are not enough due to communicational constraints. Furthermore, human cognition capabilities and presentation functions of a user interface have limitations although human operators should understand a lot of feedback information. To improve these problems, suitable presentation of alert information is considered. In our research, the graphical user interface, which has an effective alert function to reduce operator's misrecognition, is proposed. That is, the alert information is emphasized depending on human cognition characteristics. Note that, the characteristics are variable depending on information emphasis media and the position. In this paper, the human sensitivities on graphical user interface are measured in order to realize the efficient alert presentation.