Drone Acceptance and Noise Concerns - Some Findings

Drones are becoming ever more present in public perception. Ranging from parcel delivery to wildlife protection, from precision farming to law enforcement, and from industrial inspection to digital fireworks, many applications are said to have market changing potential. Against this background, nations and institutions around the world are trying to keep up with the dynamic development concerning rules and regulations. Since all of the parties involved anticipate a strong increase in both the number of drones and their range of uses, there is a rising interest in the acceptance of civil drones in the public. Widespread public acceptance can promote the dissemination of new technologies. Conversely, concerns among citizens about the use of drones in their daily environment could pose potential barriers to the further proliferation of civil drones, especially in urban areas. The psychoacoustic properties of drones have repeatedly been discussed as being one such limiting factor. This paper reports results of a representative national study on the social acceptance of civilian drones, taking a closer look at noise considerations. Therefore the results help improve understanding of the perception of civil unmanned aerial vehicles

Drone acceptance and noise concerns - From NIMBY to NOMOH

Drones are becoming more and more present in public perception. As a strong increase in the number and uses of drones is anticipated by all parties involved there is a rising interest concerning the acceptance of civil drones in the public. Widespread public acceptance can promote the successful dissemination of new technologies. Likewise, concerns of citizens about the use of drones in their daily environment could be potential barriers to the further proliferation of civil drones, especially in urban areas. The psychoacoustic properties of drones have repeatedly been discussed as being one such limiting factor. This paper reports findings of a study about the acceptance of civil drones in Germany. 832 respondents participated in a phone interview of about 20 minutes duration. This paper will describe factors of drone acceptance with a special reference to noise concerns as stated by about half of the study participants. In addition, the acceptance of home overflight and its limitations will be discussed

Drone accepotance and noise cocerns - From NIMBY to NOMOH

Drones are becoming more and more present in public perception. As a strong increase in the number and uses of drones is anticipated by all parties involved there is a rising interest concerning the acceptance of civil drones in the public. Widespread public acceptance can promote the successful dissemination of new technologies. Likewise, concerns of citizens about the use of drones in their daily environment could be potential barriers to the further proliferation of civil drones, especially in urban areas. The psychoacoustic properties of drones have repeatedly been discussed as being one such limiting factor. This paper reports findings of a study about the acceptance of civil drones in Germany. 832 respondents participated in a phone interview of about 20 minutes duration. This paper will describe factors of drone acceptance with a special reference to noise concerns as stated by about half of the study participants. In addition, the acceptance of home overflight and its limitations will be discussed

Gender differences in noise concerns about civil drones

Rapid technological developments provide people with an increasing number of opportunities for applying civil drones (e.g., rescue operations). However, one crucial aspect for the future use of drones will be their public acceptance. Importantly, drone acceptance is considered to substantially rely on noise concerns. Recent research demonstrated differences between certain groups of individuals (e.g., females vs. males) in their attitudes towards civil drones. By means of a representative telephone survey in Germany (n = 832), we aimed at further investigating the influence of gender on drone acceptance. Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) revealed noise concerns to be the most important of all assessed concerns for explaining female respondents’ attitudes towards civil drones, while concerns about damages/injuries best explained male participants’ attitudes. Moreover, our survey corroborates prior studies by showing males to be less concerned about civil drones than females (e.g., regarding noise). Additionally, we explored whether these effects could have been driven by confounding variables (e.g., drone experience). Thus, the present study highlights aspects of gender differences in concerns about drones which need to be examined further in future research

Investigating Transactive Memory Systems of Multiteam Systems in Aviation

The highly effective air traffic depends and will also depend in the future on the collaboration of human protagonists from different organizations. The project “Inter-Team Collaboration” (ITC) aims to provide system engineers with tools and concepts for human factors that allow systemic access to the social side of socio-technical systems. A main question is how to induce collaborative decision-making within the dynamic environment of air traffic management (ATM) in order to make it more adaptive and resilient. Research design A crucial factor for collaboration in multi-team systems is the transactive memory system (TMS), built up and maintained by the interactions between team members as well as multi-team members. There are currently plans to develop an intervention which would facilitate the formation of TMS structures within the multi-team. Furthermore, a set of methods will be used to assess the TMS structures and communication processes in the laboratory studies and field cases. A laboratory study is planned to examine the initial TMS intervention under controlled conditions with non-expert participants. In addition to the laboratory study, we will use large-scale simulations in the context of three use-cases with experienced operators in order to investigate these methods. The three cases are, first, the Airport Control Center for Airport Management, second, the sector-less, time-based control of aircraft, and third, the Multiple-Remote-Tower Center. Results / Practical Implications / Relevance By using real-time simulations with operational experts, the results will have implication what kind of intervention is appropriate for enhancing TMS structures of MTS in aviation and how can TMS structures be measured? In conclusion, the ITC project presents the opportunity to investigate these topics in an interdisciplinary team as well as to bring together different capabilities and competencies for the purpose of investigating transactive memory systems of MTS in aviation on different levels and in an iterative process

Changes in performance and bio-mathematical model performance predictions during 45 days of sleep restriction in a simulated space mission

Lunar habitation and exploration of space beyond low-Earth orbit will require small crews to live in isolation and confinement while maintaining a high level of performance with limited support from mission control. Astronauts only achieve approximately 6 h of sleep per night, but few studies have linked sleep deficiency in space to performance impairment. We studied crewmembers over 45 days during a simulated space mission that included 5 h of sleep opportunity on weekdays and 8 h of sleep on weekends to characterize changes in performance on the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) and subjective fatigue ratings. We further evaluated how well bio-mathematical models designed to predict performance changes due to sleep loss compared to objective performance. We studied 20 individuals during five missions and found that objective performance, but not subjective fatigue, declined from the beginning to the end of the mission. We found that bio-mathematical models were able to predict average changes across the mission but were less sensitive at predicting individual-level performance. Our findings suggest that sleep should be prioritized in lunar crews to minimize the potential for performance errors. Bio-mathematical models may be useful for aiding crews in schedule design but not for individual-level fitness-for-duty decisions

Drone Acceptance and Noise Concerns - Some Findings

Drones are becoming ever more present in public perception. Ranging from parcel delivery to wildlife protection, from precision farming to law enforcement, and from industrial inspection to digital fireworks, many applications are said to have market changing potential. Against this background, nations and institutions around the world are trying to keep up with the dynamic development concerning rules and regulations. Since all of the parties involved anticipate a strong increase in both the number of drones and their range of uses, there is a rising interest in the acceptance of civil drones in the public. Widespread public acceptance can promote the dissemination of new technologies. Conversely, concerns among citizens about the use of drones in their daily environment could pose potential barriers to the further proliferation of civil drones, especially in urban areas. The psychoacoustic properties of drones have repeatedly been discussed as being one such limiting factor. This paper reports results of a representative national study on the social acceptance of civilian drones, taking a closer look at noise considerations. Therefore the results help improve understanding of the perception of civil unmanned aerial vehicles

Drone Acceptance and Noise Concerns - Some Findings

Drone acceptance and noise concerns – some findings Drones – understood here as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in civil context - are becoming more and more present in public perception. Reaching from parcel delivery to wildlife protection, from precision farming to law enforcement, and from industrial inspection to digital fireworks, many applications are said to have market-changing potential, and nations and institutions around the world are trying to keep up with the dynamic development concerning rules and regulations. As a strong increase in the number and uses of drones is anticipated by all parties involved there is a rising interest concerning the acceptance of civil drones in the public. Widespread public acceptance can promote the successful dissemination of new technologies. But as shown with the planning of airport extensions for example lacking acceptance in the public can be a limit to aviation growth in general. Likewise, concerns of citizens about the use of drones in their daily environment could be potential barriers to the further proliferation of civil drones, especially in urban areas. The psychoacoustic properties of drones have repeatedly been discussed as being one such limiting factor. This paper reports findings of a study about the acceptance of civil drones in Germany. 832 respondents participated in a phone interview of about 20 minutes duration. This paper will describe factors of drone acceptance with a special reference to noise concerns as stated by about half of the study participants

Investigating attitudes towards drone delivery

In recent years civil drones have become more and more visible in everyday life. Reports in the media are numerous, they cover a variety of aspects and technical developments, and everybody is used to bird-eye views being a common feature in television, movies and photography. Parcel delivery by drones has been of high interest from the beginning as the increase of online shopping stresses the demand on classic forms of parcel delivery. Drone delivery is propagated as viable countermeasure to congested urban streets and a way to achieve sustainability. After some limited trials industry is now receiving support from the administration to schedule large-scale services for drone delivery for a variety of products. However, as surveys indicate the public acceptance of drone delivery seems limited, usually in the range of 30% - 40%. This paper reports findings of a representative national study about the acceptance of civilian drones. Investigating the attitude towards drone delivery in general as well as the anticipated own usage of drone delivery, several factors limiting the support like concerns about transport safety, noise, and animal welfare are identified. In addition gender effects are discussed showing female respondents being slightly more critical about drone delivery in general and more distinctive in their attititude. Also an effect of NIMBYism is confirmed in the context of drone delivery, as even among residents envisioning own usage of drones for parcel delivery the overflight of the own home is not agreed with. This special effect is labeled as NOMOH ‘Not Over My Own Home