The Role of Spatial Ability in the Relationship Between Video Game Experience and Route Effectiveness Among Unmanned Vehicle Operators

Abstract

Effective route planning is essential to the successful operation of unmanned vehicles. Video game experience has been shown to affect route planning and execution, but why video game experience helps has not been addressed. One answer may be that spatial skills, necessary for route planning and execution, improve after experience with video games. The current study examines the degree to which spatial ability, specifically spatial visualization, mediates the relationship between video game experience and route planning. Results indicated that this mediated relationship existed for the UGV operators only. Although the UAV operators' video game experience predicted spatial ability, this did not significantly affect performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA505705

Entities

People

  • A. W. Evans Iii
  • David Schuster
  • Florian Jentsch
  • Joseph Keebler
  • Thomas Fincannon

Organizations

  • University of Central Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Military Operations
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Video Games
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction