TY - GEN
T1 - Encephalographic Assessment of Situation Awareness in Teleoperation of Human-Swarm Teaming
AU - Fernandez Rojas, Raul
AU - Debie, Essam
AU - Fidock, Justin
AU - Barlow, Michael
AU - Kasmarik, Kathryn
AU - Anavatti, Sreenatha
AU - Garratt, Matthew
AU - Abbass, Hussein
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - An important factor in the operational success of any teleoperated human-swarm system is situation awareness (SA). A loss of SA has been associated with poor human performance, which can lead to misjudgement, errors, and life-threatening situations. One of the major factors that causes loss of SA is the degradation of data transmission. It is imperative to assess the SA of an operator before the performance of a teleoperated system has declined, in particular in situations of delayed relay and/or loss of critical information. We use electroencephalography (EEG) to predict different levels of SA. A human-swarm simulation was used to obtain subjective scores from participants. Quality of information significantly affected the perception of SA of the participants. EEG data provided objective confirmation of the resultant SA level. Theta, Alpha, and Beta band exhibited an increase during loss of SA. Frontal and occipital areas were identified to reflect changes in SA. These preliminary results offer evidence for the potential use of EEG to offer real-time indicators for the objective assessment of SA.
AB - An important factor in the operational success of any teleoperated human-swarm system is situation awareness (SA). A loss of SA has been associated with poor human performance, which can lead to misjudgement, errors, and life-threatening situations. One of the major factors that causes loss of SA is the degradation of data transmission. It is imperative to assess the SA of an operator before the performance of a teleoperated system has declined, in particular in situations of delayed relay and/or loss of critical information. We use electroencephalography (EEG) to predict different levels of SA. A human-swarm simulation was used to obtain subjective scores from participants. Quality of information significantly affected the perception of SA of the participants. EEG data provided objective confirmation of the resultant SA level. Theta, Alpha, and Beta band exhibited an increase during loss of SA. Frontal and occipital areas were identified to reflect changes in SA. These preliminary results offer evidence for the potential use of EEG to offer real-time indicators for the objective assessment of SA.
KW - Cognitive assessment
KW - EEG
KW - Human performance
KW - Teleoperation
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0599a45b-8977-3a01-8f25-11d349495976/
UR - http://ajiips.com.au/iconip2019/index.html
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85080093912&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-36808-1_58
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-36808-1_58
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783030368074
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 530
EP - 539
BT - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019
A2 - Gedeon, Tom
A2 - Wong, Kok Wai
A2 - Lee, Minho
PB - Springer
CY - Netherlands
T2 - 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS 2019)
Y2 - 12 October 2019 through 15 December 2019
ER -