This article focuses on web-based teleoperation system design. We review current web-based telerobotic systems and identify human factors issues associated with them. Subsequently, the difficulties and challenges of interface design for web-based teleoperation are analyzed from the perspectives of system implementation and human factors. A prototyped web-based system was developed to further explore the design problems. An empirical study involving comparison of different prototype design options is described. On the basis of the research, several design guidelines were formulated for future work in this area.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
GoldbergK.MaschaM.GenterS.RothenbergN.SutterC.WiegleyJ. (1995). Desktop Teleoperation via the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of IEEE International conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 654–659). Nagoya, Japan; IEEE.
2.
NormanD. A. (1986). Cognitive engineering. In NormanD. A.Draper (Ed.), User Centered System Design. (pp. 30–61). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
3.
TaylorK.TrevelyanJ. (1995). A Telerobot on the World Wide Web. National Conference of the Australian Robot Association. Melbourne, Australia: [Online], Available: http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au/ROBOT/telerobo.htm [Jan 5, 2000].
