Publikation
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Nina Knieriemen; Anke Hirsch; Muhammad Moiz Sakha; Florian Daiber; Hannah Kolb; Simone Hüning; Frederik Wiehr; Antonio Krüger (Hrsg.)
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-2025), Safe and responsible multimodal interactions, located at ICMI-2025, October 13-17, Canberra, Australia, Vol. 27, ISBN 979-8-4007-1499-3, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, 10/2025.
Zusammenfassung
Autonomous drones are increasingly used across various domains, yet critical situations can arise, and little research exists on how users prefer to be alerted during these events. In multi-drone control scenarios, where human-machine interfaces are used to monitor multiple drones simultaneously, alerting preferences are critical for ensuring situational awareness and timely decision-making. This paper explores multimodal alert design preferences in a user-centered approach. In an online survey, drone pilots identified critical scenarios, with collision risks, signal loss, and hardware problems being the most prevalent challenges. The subsequent study examined notification preferences for multi-drone control interfaces. Participants designed alerts for critical scenarios that were created based on the findings from the first survey. Using a printed control room interface with drone feeds and a map view, participants created multimodal alerts combining visual cues (e.g., frames, text), auditory signals (e.g., beeps), and, less frequently, tactile notifications (vibrations). This work bridges real-world drone operation challenges with user-centered multimodal interface design for autonomous systems.