HFUS 2015 - 1st International Conference on Human Factors and Unmanned Systems

Researchers are conducting cutting-edge investigations in the area of unmanned systems. The efforts aim to change how humans operate the vehicles by reducing the number of personnel hours and dedicated resources necessary to execute the systems.
The growing use of unmanned systems across all military and commercial sectors is the direction of the future. Optimizing human-robot interaction is critical because the farther removed the operators are from the system, the more important their ability to intervene becomes. Along the same lines, the fewer the number of people involved in a system’s operation, the more important each individual becomes. Researchers are developing theories as well as prototype displays that could be built into actual systems.
Because humans tend to be the most flexible part of “unmanned” systems, the Human Factors and Unmanned Systems focus considers the role of the human early in the development process in order to create the best functional devices.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:
Automation issues
Consequences of degraded reliability of automated unmanned functions for performance of the automated task and of concurrent tasks
Perceptual and cognitive issues in unmanned systems
Role of augmented reality displays or synthetic vision systems to successfully compensate for the degraded visual imagery provided by onboard sensors
Multimodal display technology applications to compensate for the dearth of sensory information available to a unmanned vehicle operator
Extent to which displays and controls can be standardized across unmanned systems?
Predictable autonomous behavior for unmanned system following a loss of communications