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This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a
digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM)
system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade
(Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The
analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations.
The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI
DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation,
including: - observation of people using the traditional analogue
MP/BM processes in the course of their work - cognitive work
analysis of the digital MP/BM system - analysis of the tasks and
goal structure required by the digital MP/BM - assessment against a
usability questionnaire - analysis of the distributed situation
awareness - an environmental survey. The book concludes with a
summary of the research project's findings and offers many valuable
insights. For example, the recommendations for short-term
improvements in the current generation of digital MP/BM system
address general design improvements, user-interface design
improvements, hardware improvements, infrastructure improvements
and support improvements. In looking forward to the next generation
digital MP/BM systems, general human factors design principles are
presented and human factors issues in digitising mission planning
are considered.
Driving automation and autonomy are already upon us and the
problems that were predicted twenty years ago are beginning to
appear. These problems include shortfalls in expected benefits,
equipment unreliability, driver skill fade, and error-inducing
equipment designs. Designing Interaction and Interfaces for
Automated Vehicles: User-Centred Ecological Design and Testing
investigates the difficult problem of how to interface drivers with
automated vehicles by offering an inclusive, human-centred design
process that focusses on human variability and capability in
interaction with interfaces. This book introduces a novel method
that combines both systems thinking and inclusive user-centred
design. It models driver interaction, provides design
specifications, concept designs, and the results of studies in
simulators on the test track, and in road going vehicles. This book
is for designers of systems interfaces, interactions, UX, Human
Factors and Ergonomics researchers and practitioners involved with
systems engineering and automotive academics._ "In this book, Prof
Stanton and colleagues show how Human Factors methods can be
applied to the tricky problem of interfacing human drivers with
vehicle automation. They have developed an approach to designing
the human-automation interaction for the handovers between the
driver and the vehicle. This approach has been tested in driving
simulators and, most interestingly, in real vehicles on British
motorways. The approach, called User-Centred Ecological Interface
Design, has been validated against driver behaviour and used to
support their ongoing work on vehicle automation. I highly
recommend this book for anyone interested, or involved, in
designing human-automation interaction in vehicles and beyond."
Professor Michael A. Regan, University of NSW Sydney, AUSTRALIA
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a
digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM)
system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade
(Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The
analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations.
The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI
DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation,
including: - observation of people using the traditional analogue
MP/BM processes in the course of their work - cognitive work
analysis of the digital MP/BM system - analysis of the tasks and
goal structure required by the digital MP/BM - assessment against a
usability questionnaire - analysis of the distributed situation
awareness - an environmental survey. The book concludes with a
summary of the research project's findings and offers many valuable
insights. For example, the recommendations for short-term
improvements in the current generation of digital MP/BM system
address general design improvements, user-interface design
improvements, hardware improvements, infrastructure improvements
and support improvements. In looking forward to the next generation
digital MP/BM systems, general human factors design principles are
presented and human factors issues in digitising mission planning
are considered.
There is a resurgence of interest in mental models due to advances
in our understanding of how they can be used to help design and due
to the development of practical methods to elicit them. This book
brings both areas together with a focus on reducing domestic energy
consumption. The book focuses on how mental models can be applied
in design to bring out behaviour change resulting in increased
achievement of home heating goals (reduced waste and improved
comfort). This book also offers a method to extract and apply
mental models to interface design. The approach enables mental
models to be applied across domains when behaviour change was
sought, and is validated as a useful design method.
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