Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays
In unmanned vehicle (UV) operations, displays are often the only information link between operators and vehicles. It is essential these displays present information clearly and efficiently so that operators can interact with the UVs to achieve mission objectives. While there are a variety of met...
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2009
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| author | Graham, Hudson Cummings, M. L. Donmez, Birsen Brzezinski, A. S. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Humans and Automation Laboratory |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Humans and Automation Laboratory Graham, Hudson Cummings, M. L. Donmez, Birsen Brzezinski, A. S. |
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| description | In unmanned vehicle (UV) operations, displays are often the only information link between
operators and vehicles. It is essential these displays present information clearly and efficiently so that
operators can interact with the UVs to achieve mission objectives. While there are a variety of metrics to
evaluate displays, there is no current standardized methodology for operators to subjectively assess a
display’s support and identify specific deficiencies. Such a methodology could improve current displays
and ensure that displays under development support operator processes. This report presents a quasi-
subjective display evaluation tool called the Modified Cooper-Harper for Unmanned Vehicle Displays
(MCH-UVD) diagnosis tool. This tool, adapted from the Cooper-Harper aircraft handling scale, allows
operators to assess a display, translating their judgments on potential display shortcomings into a number
corresponding to a particular deficiency in operator support. The General MCH-UVD can be used to
diagnose deficiencies for any UV display, while the Specific MCH-UVD is UV and mission specific in its
evaluation of displays. This report presents the General MCH-UVD and provides guidance on how to
adapt it to create a Specific MCH-UVD through the use of UV mission taxonomies and a questioning
method. A UGV search mission case study provides a how-to guide example for generating a Specific
MCH-UVD. The report also presents an experiment conducted to validate the MCH-UVD and assess if a
mission-specific version is necessary, or if the general form of the MCH-UVD is sufficient for different UV
display evaluation. The report concludes with discussion on how to administer the scale, when a Specific
scale is necessary, MCH-UVD diagnosis tool limitations, and future work. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/467452019-04-11T00:37:09Z Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays Graham, Hudson Cummings, M. L. Donmez, Birsen Brzezinski, A. S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Humans and Automation Laboratory In unmanned vehicle (UV) operations, displays are often the only information link between operators and vehicles. It is essential these displays present information clearly and efficiently so that operators can interact with the UVs to achieve mission objectives. While there are a variety of metrics to evaluate displays, there is no current standardized methodology for operators to subjectively assess a display’s support and identify specific deficiencies. Such a methodology could improve current displays and ensure that displays under development support operator processes. This report presents a quasi- subjective display evaluation tool called the Modified Cooper-Harper for Unmanned Vehicle Displays (MCH-UVD) diagnosis tool. This tool, adapted from the Cooper-Harper aircraft handling scale, allows operators to assess a display, translating their judgments on potential display shortcomings into a number corresponding to a particular deficiency in operator support. The General MCH-UVD can be used to diagnose deficiencies for any UV display, while the Specific MCH-UVD is UV and mission specific in its evaluation of displays. This report presents the General MCH-UVD and provides guidance on how to adapt it to create a Specific MCH-UVD through the use of UV mission taxonomies and a questioning method. A UGV search mission case study provides a how-to guide example for generating a Specific MCH-UVD. The report also presents an experiment conducted to validate the MCH-UVD and assess if a mission-specific version is necessary, or if the general form of the MCH-UVD is sufficient for different UV display evaluation. The report concludes with discussion on how to administer the scale, when a Specific scale is necessary, MCH-UVD diagnosis tool limitations, and future work. Prepared for US Army Aberdeen Testing Center 2009-09-18T04:45:09Z 2009-09-18T04:45:09Z 2008 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46745 en_US HAL Reports;HAL2008-06 application/pdf MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory |
| spellingShingle | Graham, Hudson Cummings, M. L. Donmez, Birsen Brzezinski, A. S. Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title | Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title_full | Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title_fullStr | Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title_short | Modified Cooper Harper Scales for Assessing Unmanned Vehicle Displays |
| title_sort | modified cooper harper scales for assessing unmanned vehicle displays |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46745 |
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