Usability Evaluation and Improvement of Mission Planner UAV Ground Control System's Interface

doi:10.23940/ijpe.19.10.p19.27262734

Int J Performability Eng ›› 2019, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (10): 2726-2734.doi: 10.23940/ijpe.19.10.p19.27262734

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Usability Evaluation and Improvement of Mission Planner UAV Ground Control System's Interface

Huibin Jin^a^*, Yawei Liu^b, Xiaomeng Mu^c, Mingxia Ma^c, and Jing Zhang^c

^aGeneral Aviation College, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, China
^bCivil Aviation College, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
^cFlight Technology College, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, China

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* Corresponding author. E-mail address: airhf207@163.com
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The authors were supported by the National Key Research and Development Program: Wide Area Aviation Safety Surveillance Technology and Application (No.2016YFB0502400), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.3122017014)

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This paper aims to improve the usability of Mission Planner UAV ground control system's interface through interface improvement. The questionnaire survey and user interview were utilized to evaluate the usability of the UAV ground control system's interface, and the C programming language was used to improve the usability problems. Then, the eye-tracking experiment was designed to compare the difference in usability between the improved system interface and the original system interface, which was used to verify that the improvement to the system interface was effective. The result showed that the usability problems mainly existed in flexibility, minimal user action, minimal memory burden, and user guidance dimension, and the analysis result of multiple indexes such as task completion time, mouse click and fixation points indicate that the usability of the improved system interface was better than the original system.

Key words: UAV, system interface, usability evaluation, interface improvement, eye-tracking

Huibin Jin, Yawei Liu, Xiaomeng Mu, Mingxia Ma, and Jing Zhang. Usability Evaluation and Improvement of Mission Planner UAV Ground Control System's Interface [J]. Int J Performability Eng, 2019, 15(10): 2726-2734.

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