Cognitive Systems Engineering for User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation

Cognitive Systems Engineering for User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation
Author: Stephen J. Andriole
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000943208

This volume seeks to answer the question: "Can findings from cognitive science enhance the user-computer interaction process?" In so doing, it recognizes that user-computer interfaces (UCIs) are often essential parts of an information or decision support system -- and often critical components of software-intensive systems of all kinds. From the outset, the authors note that the design, prototyping, and evaluation of user-computer interfaces are part of larger systems and are therefore ideally designed, developed, and evaluated as part of a larger design and developmental process or "life cycle." Thus, this book describes the process by which functional, nonfunctional, or display-oriented requirements are converted first into prototypes and then into working systems. While the process may at times seem almost mysterious, there is in fact a methodology that drives the process -- a methodology that is defined in terms of an adaptive life cycle. There are a number of steps or phases that comprise the standard life cycle, as well as methods, tools and techniques that permit each step to be taken. Describing the effort to implement this process to enhance user-computer interaction, this book presents a methodological approach that seeks to identify and apply findings from cognitive science to the design, prototyping, and evaluation of user-computer interfaces.

Usability Evaluation and Interface Design

Usability Evaluation and Interface Design
Author: Michael J. Smith
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1610
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780805836073

This three volume set provides the complete proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction held August, 2001 in New Orleans. A total of 2,738 individuals from industry, academia, research institutes, and governmental agencies from 37 countries submitted their work for presentation at the conference. The papers address the latest research and application in the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. Those accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, including the cognitive, social, ergonomic, and health aspects of work with computers. The papers also address major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of diversified application areas, including offices, financial institutions, manufacturing, electronic publishing, construction, and health care.

Knowledge-based User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping and Evaluation

Knowledge-based User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping and Evaluation
Author: Stephen J. Andriole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1998
Genre: Human-computer interaction
ISBN:

This report details the development of the DesignPro interactive computer-based advisory system for user-computer interface (UCI) design, prototyping and evaluation. DesignPro permits designers of user computer interfaces to represent requirements, to build prototypes, and to evaluate their impact -- all via a "workbench" of user accessible functions. DesignPro supports the UCI designer; it does not call for the replacement of human UCI expertise in the design process. The methodology assumes that commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software can be used to create an integrated environment for designing, prototyping and evaluating interactive user computer interaction routines. The overall process includes interaction among knowledge templates to develop a requirements model that, in turn, helps yield displays and UCI routines which, in turn, suggest a prototyping strategy which, in turn, identifies evaluation tactics. Anchored in the systems engineering approach to interactive systems design and development, an initial prototype of DesignPro was released in January 1993; refinements were made to the prototype with a final prototype released in August 1995. The prototypes were used to validate workstation requirements and to communicate what the system does, as well as permitted the integration of concepts, tools, and COTS software programs into the design.

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
Author: Don Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 135156823X

This is the second of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics at Stratford-upon-Avon, England in October 1996. The applications areas include aerospace and other transportation, human-computer interaction, process control and training technology. Topics addressed include: the design of control and display systems; human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and awareness, skill acquisition and retention; techniques for evaluating human-machine systems and the physiological correlates of performance. While Volume one is more clearly focused on the domain of aviation and ground transportation, Volume two is concerned with human factors in job and product design, the basics of decision making and training, with relevance to all industrial domains. Part one opens with a keynote chapter by Ken Eason. It is followed by Part two dealing with learning and training, while Part three reflects the rapidly growing area of medical ergonomics. Part four entitled 'Applied Cognitive Psychology' is biased towards human capabilities, an understanding of which is central to sound human engineering decisions. Part five firmly emphasizes equipment rather than its human operators.

Cognitive Systems Engineering

Cognitive Systems Engineering
Author: Michael D. McNeese
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1498782310

This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological purview of multiple perspectives surrounding the human factors/human actors within living ecosystems. This book will provide useful theoretical and practical information to human factors, human-computer interaction, cognitive systems engineering personnel who are currently engaged in human-centered design or other applied aspects of modeling, simulation, and design that requires joint understanding of theory and practice.

Knowledge-based User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping and Evaluation

Knowledge-based User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping and Evaluation
Author: Stephen J. Andriole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Human-computer interaction
ISBN:

This report details the development of the DesignPro interactive computer-based advisory system for user-computer interface (UCI) design, prototyping and evaluation. DesignPro permits designers of user computer interfaces to represent requirements, to build prototypes, and to evaluate their impact -- all via a "workbench" of user accessible functions. DesignPro supports the UCI designer; it does not call for the replacement of human UCI expertise in the design process. The methodology assumes that commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software can be used to create an integrated environment for designing, prototyping and evaluating interactive user computer interaction routines. The overall process includes interaction among knowledge templates to develop a requirements model that, in turn, helps yield displays and UCI routines which, in turn, suggest a prototyping strategy which, in turn, identifies evaluation tactics. Anchored in the systems engineering approach to interactive systems design and development, an initial prototype of DesignPro was released in January 1993; refinements were made to the prototype with a final prototype released in August 1995. The prototypes were used to validate workstation requirements and to communicate what the system does, as well as permitted the integration of concepts, tools, and COTS software programs into the design.

Handbook of Human Systems Integration

Handbook of Human Systems Integration
Author: Harold R. Booher
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 996
Release: 2003-07-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471020530

A groundbreaking look at how technology with a human touch is revolutionizing government and industry Human Systems Integration (HSI) is very attractive as a new integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward a more people-technology orientation. Over the past decade, the United States and foreign governments have developed a wide range of tools, techniques, and technologies aimed at integrating human factors into engineering systems in order to achieve important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural change is needed that must start with organizational leadership. Handbook of Human Systems Integration outlines the principles and methods that can be used to help integrate people, technology, and organizations with a common objective toward designing, developing, and operating systems effectively and efficiently. Handbook of Human Systems Integration is broad in scope, covering both public and commercial processes as they interface with systems engineering processes. Emphasizing the importance of management and organization concepts as well as the technical uniqueness of HSI, Handbook of Human Systems Integration features: * More than ninety contributors, technical advisors, and reviewers from government, industry, and academia * Comprehensive coverage of the most recent HSI developments, particularly in presenting the cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies utilized by each of the HSI domains * Chapters representing the governments and industries of the United Kingdom and Canada * Contributions from three services of the Department of Defense along with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Academy of Sciences * Many chapters covering both military and nonmilitary applications * Concepts widely used by government contractors both in the United States and abroad This book will be of special interest to HSI practitioners, systems engineers, and managers, as well as government and industry decision-makers who must weigh the recommendations of all multidisciplines contributing to systems performance, safety, and costs in order to make sound systems acquisition decisions.

Critical Issues in User Interface Systems Engineering

Critical Issues in User Interface Systems Engineering
Author: David Benyon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447110013

This book developed from an IFIP workshop which brought together methods and architecture researchers in Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. To an extent this introduction is a little unfair to the authors, as we have distilled the results of the workshop to give the reader a perspective of the problems within integrated approaches to usability engineering. The papers could not hope to address all ofthe issues; however, we hope that a framework will help the reader gainfurther insights into current research andfuture practice. The initial motivation was to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange their experiences on Graphical User Interface (Gill) design problems. The two groups represented methodological and architecture/tools interests, so the workshop focused on intersection of how methods can support user interface development and vice versa, how tools, architectures and reusable components can empower the design process. There is, we believe, a constructive tension between these two communities. Methodologists tend to approach the design problem with task/domain/organisational analysis while the tool builders suggest design empowerment/envisioning as a means ofimproving the way users work rather than relying on analysis ofcurrent systems. This debate revolves around the questions of whether users' current work is optimal, or whether designers have the insight to empower users by creating effective solutions to their problems. Tool builders typically want to build something, then get the users to try it, while the methodologists want to specify something, validate it and then build it.

Handbook for Evaluating Knowledge-Based Systems

Handbook for Evaluating Knowledge-Based Systems
Author: Leonard Adelman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 146156171X

Knowledge-based systems are increasingly found in a wide variety of settings and this handbook has been written to meet a specific need in their widening use. While there have been many successful applications of knowledge-based systems, some applications have failed because they never received the corrective feedback that evaluation provides for keeping development focused on the users' needs in their actual working environment. This handbook provides a conceptual framework and compendium of methods for performing evaluations of knowledge-based systems during their development. Its focus is on the users' and subject matter experts' evaluation of the usefulness of the system, and not on the developers' testing of the adequacy of the programming code. The handbook permits evaluators to systematically answer the following kinds of questions: Does the knowledge-based system meet the users' task requirements? Is the system easy to use? Is the knowledge base logically consistent? Does it meet the required level of expertise? Does the system improve performance? The authors have produced a handbook that will serve two audiences: a tool that can be used to create knowledge-based systems (practitioners, developers, and evaluators) and a framework that will stimulate more research in the area (academic researchers and students). To accomplish this, the handbook is built around a conceptual framework that integrates the different types of evaluations into the system of development process. The kinds of questions that can be answered, and the methods available for answering them, will change throughout the system development life cycle. And throughout this process, one needs to know what can be done, and what can't. It is this dichotomy that addresses needs in both the practitioner and academic research audiences.