Design of visual and auditory human-machine interfaces with user participation and knowledge support

Abstract

Human-machine interfaces for dynamic technical systems (such as industrial processes, vehicles, etc.) are a particularly important and complex subset of user interfaces. The design of these interfaces has become so sophisticated that it can, already for quite some time, no longer be handled in an intuitive fashion. The designer needs to possess a huge amount of multidisciplinary knowledge and experience with respect to the application domain of the respective technical process, the available automation and information technologies, the capabilities and limitations of the human users (human operators, maintenance personnel, and others), work psychological and organizational matters as well as ergonomic and cognitive engineering principles of good human-machine interface design. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.