Creating a One-handed User Interface for Drones
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This document describes a student team's project to design a one-handed user interface for controlling drones to make drone flight more accessible. The team consists of four masters students with relevant experience and skills. Currently, drone apps are not accessible, do not allow for multitasking, and have unhelpful feedback. The team proposes a single-handed interface using different finger gestures to control direction, altitude, and rotation. They believe this will have wide impact as drone use increases and argue for inclusive design. Next steps are to develop a prototype, add more controls, and refine the design to pitch to manufacturers.
Creating a One-handed User Interface for Drones
- 1. Team: “Touched by a Drone” Designing a one-handed user interface for accessible drone flight.
- 2. Mallory Anderson Masters student, Freelance Designer, UX Intern at GE, Enrolled in Accessibility focused classes and hackathon events. THE TEAM Allyson Mackay Master’s student in IT and Public Health, Freelance Developer, and Drupaler with experience in user testing. Hari Subramonyam Masters student, PhD candidate, Creative Coder, Maker, Design Researcher with a focus on IoT and Natural User Interfaces. Jackie Wolf Masters student, Entrepreneur, User Experience Researcher with International Experience.
- 3. ● Current app is not accessible. ● You can’t multitask while flying. ● Feedback from UI is not useful. THE PROBLEM
- 4. THE SOLUTION Single-handed user interface is more accessible and accommodates multitasking. Direction *one finger Altitude *three fingers Rotation *two fingers
- 5. THE IMPACT ● Within the next 5-10 years drones will be as ubiquitous as smartphones. ● It is better UX to have design solutions built into products so that they can be adaptable for users depending on their abilities. ● Creating an enabling technology that doesn’t exclude individuals from “regular” behavior.
- 6. NEXT STEPS 1. Develop a prototype and program the AR Parrot Drone to test in indoor/outdoor settings. 2. Incorporate more features controlling camera and control sensitivity 3. Revise visual designs and pitch to drone manufacturers and distributors.