This article claims that the introduction of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) into the ground stations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) systems supported by the theoretical principles of embodied cognition will lead to improved interface efficiency and reduced operator workload. The increasing complexity of UAV missions has led to an increasing complexity control interface. This requires more and more cognitive treatment from the operators, leading to an increase in workload. The aim of this paper is therefore to demonstrate how the use of TUI and embodied cognition are leading to a reduction in the operator’s workload. TUIs are a type of Human/Machine interface that will embed digital data or control into an object. Unlike graphical user interfaces, they allow the user to interact with the object by relying on the sensory-motor capabilities of the user. On the other hand,previous work on embodied cognition showed that perception, memory and spatial representations are rooted in the sensorimotor (i.e. perceptual and motor) system of the human being. There is therefore a possible match between the capabilities of the operators’ sensorimotor system and the interface allowing the control of the UAV through TUI.