Designing for Exploration and Exploitation in Experimental Search and Rescue Scenarios

Dylan A. Orth; Michael Buchanan; Ashish Amresh; Cassady Smith; Glenn Lematta; Nancy Cooke; Adam Fouse; Samantha Dubrow

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Designing for Exploration and Exploitation in Experimental Search and Rescue Scenarios

Dylan A. Orth, Michael Buchanan, Ashish Amresh, Cassady Smith, Glenn Lematta, Nancy Cooke, Adam Fouse, Samantha Dubrow

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Exploration and exploitation are commonly cited in search and rescue scenarios to explain the process by which individuals work in a team and gather information about their environment (exploration) and identify potential solutions and adaptations (exploitation) to pursue successful outcomes. In this paper, we discuss exploration and exploitation as critical design features and highlight the importance of balancing them when designing team-based search and rescue missions. To test the proposed design decisions, we developed a usability study that includes two missions wherein teams consisting of three participants are tasked to rescue victims within a Minecraft-based 3D testbed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	720-725
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Volume	65
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181321651009
State	Published - 2021
Event	65th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, HFES 2021 - Baltimore, United States Duration: Oct 3 2021 → Oct 8 2021

Keywords

Minecraft
Synthetic task environment
Team Coordination
Urban Search and Rescue

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Human Factors and Ergonomics

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