Description
Book SynopsisThe barrage of data overload is threatening the ability of people to effectively operate in a wide range of systems including aircraft cockpits and ground control stations, military command and control centers, intelligence operations, emergency management, medical systems, air traffic control centers, automobiles, financial and business management systems, space exploration, and power and process control rooms. All of these systems need user interfaces that allow people to effectively manage the information available to gain a high level of understanding of what is currently happening and projections on what will happen next. They need systems designed to support situation awareness.
Addressing the information gap between the plethora of disorganized, low-level data and what decision makers really need to know, Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, Second Edition provides a successful, systematic methodology
Table of Contents
Understanding Situation Awareness in System Design. User-Centered Design. What is Situation Awareness. SA Demons: The Enemies of Situation Awareness. The Design Process. Creating Situation Awareness-Oriented Designs. Determining SA Requirements. Principles of Designing for SA. Confidence and Uncertainty in SA and Decision Making. Dealing with Complexity. Alarms, Diagnosis, and SA. Automation and Situation Awareness. Designing to Support SA for Multiple and Distributed Operators. Multi-modal and 3-D displays. Supporting SA in Remote Control Operations. Completing the Design Cycle. Evaluating Design Concepts for SA. Applying SA-Oriented Design to Complex Systems. Appendix A: Goal-directed Task Analysis for Commercial Airline Pilots.
