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With the decrease in the price of aerial robots and advances in technology, more groups of people are using aerial robots, including hobbyists, bridge inspectors, photographers, etc. As a result, more people are being exposed to aerial robots both as direct robot operators/pilots and also as bystanders and/or people having unwanted/unplanned interactions with aerial robots. For example, if a hobbyist flies a robot in a neighborhood, neighbors may be involved in the interaction just because they are in the same environment as the robot. As these interactions become more commonplace, it is critical to intentionally design robots around both explicit and implicit interactions. To this end, we are interested in learning more about what type of information users might want to know while interacting with aerial robots.We created videos of a user interacting with an aerial robot and collected user responses regarding possible information a user might want to know about the robot in a survey with 50 participants on Mechanical Turk. While some of our results support findings in prior work in human-robot interaction, they also reveal several new priorities for drone researchers to consider in improving human-drone interactions.
