Human-Drone Interaction: Interacting with People Smoking in Prohibited Areas

Yermakhan Kassym, Saparkhan Kassymbekov, Kamila Zhumakhanova, Anara Sandygulova

Abstract: Drones are continually entering our daily lives by being used in a number of different applications. This creates a natural demand for better interaction ways between humans and drones. One of the possible applications that would benefit from improved interaction is the inspection of smoking in prohibited areas. We propose our own gesture of drone flight that we believe would deliver the message "not to smoke" better than the ready-made built-in gesture. To this end, we conducted a within-subject experiment involving 19 participants, where we evaluated the gestures on a drone operated through the Wizard-of-Oz interaction design. The results demonstrate that the proposed gesture was better at conveying the message compared to the built-in gesture.