Mark Micire, Jill Drury, Brenden Keyes and Holly Yanco explored how people would interact with and use a multi-touch interface to control a robot. Some of the items on the control display include forward and backward cameras, top down and isometric maps of the area being navigated, four directional control buttons, a brake button and a button for the lights. The user study performed was to see how the users interacted with the multi touch controller. They were surprised to find that all of the users handled and interacted with the controls in very different ways.
I thought this was pretty neat. Although I think it would be better if there was some kind of tactile feed back from the controls. From this study, a lot could be gleaned about how people perceive the affordance of controllers.
So mostly it was just the controller they focused on? They didn't go into the paradigm of the control or anything?
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