Evaluating a Pattern-Based Visual Support Approach for Demining

Details two studies conducted to test the effects of explicitly visualizing metallic signatures. Get full paper  

Lahiru G. Jayatilaka, Luca F. Bertuccelli, James Staszewski, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. PETALS: Understanding the Implications of Visual Decision Support in Humanitarian Landmine Clearance. In CHI 2011: Proceeding of the annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems , New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM

PETALS: a visual interface for landmine detection

A short paper summarizing PETALS, which is a prototype interface for visualizing metallic signatures. Get abstract Get poster

Lahiru G. Jayatilaka, Luca F. Bertuccelli, James Staszewski, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. PETALS: a visual interface for landmine detection. In Supplementary Proceedings of UIST'10, New York, NY, 2010.

Visualizing patterns : decision support for human-based demining

Undergraduate thesis that examines the effects of showing novice deminers metallic signatures on an experimental visual interface in comparison to the traditional method of internal representation. Get portable version of thesis Hoopes prize winner

L. Jayatilaka. Visualizing patterns: decision support for human-based demining. Bachelor's thesis, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, May 2010.

Prior work that informed this project

Spatial thinking and the design of landmine detection training

This book chapter details two projects that incorporated expert techniques of spatial pattern building into novice deminer training programs. Get book chapter

Staszewski, J. (2006). Spatial thinking and the design of landmine detection training. In G. A. Allen, (Ed.), Applied spatial cognition: From research to cognitive technology (pp. 231-265). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.

Mine detection training based on expert skill.

Presents studies that tested the effects of an experimental detection training program based on knowledge and techniques learned from analysis of deminer expertise. Get paper

Staszewski, J. (1999). Information processing analysis of human land mine detection skill. In T. Broach, A. C. Dubey, R. E. Dugan, & J. Harvey, (Eds.), Detection and remediation technologies for mines and minelike targets IV, Proceedings of the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers 13th Annual Meeting, 3710, 766-777.

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