DESIGN OF SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED HUMAN INTERACTION

• US 20110218953A1
• Filed: 05/19/2011
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kay M. Stanney, Kelly S. Hale, Leaha M. Reeves
• Original Assignee: Kay M. Stanney, Kelly S. Hale, Leaha M. Reeves
• Inventors: Stanney, Kay M., Reeves, Leaha M., Hale, Kelly S.
• Application Number:
  US13/111,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218953A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A method for evaluating a human interface of a system for appropriate allocation of design guidance including establishing guidelines for avoiding sensory overload conditions of a human interacting with a system, identifying an event associated with the system producing a potential sensory overload condition, and generating a human interface design recommendation based on the guidelines for modifying an operation of the system to help alleviate the potential sensory overload condition associated with the event.

Claims

1. A method for evaluating a human interface of a system for appropriate allocation of design guidance comprising:

establishing guidelines for avoiding sensory overload conditions of a human interacting with a system;

identifying an event associated with the system producing a potential sensory overload condition; and

generating a human interface design recommendation based on the guidelines for modifying an operation of the system to help alleviate the potential sensory overload condition associated with the event.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the design recommendation comprises an instruction to change a presentation of information by the system effective to reduce a likelihood of an operator experiencing sensory overload in response to the event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the design recommendation comprises an instruction to convert a first sense stimulus resulting in the event into a second sense stimulus effective to reduce a likelihood of an operator experiencing sensory overload in response to the event.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first sense stimulus is directed to at least one of a visual, an auditory, and a haptic sense.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an event comprises characterizing event information associated with the event.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein characterizing event information comprises organizing the event information into one or more task categories.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the task categories comprise at least one of a task type, a type of cognitive demand on the user for the task, a timing of the task, a display mode used for the task, an input mode required by the task, and a priority of the task.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning a cognitive processing value to the event.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the cognitive processing value is assigned according to at least one of an attention demand requirement placed on an operator during the event, an attention demand conflict in a same sensory channel of the system, and an attention demand conflict in different sensory channels of the system.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the human interface design recommendation to modify the operation of the system while the system is being used.

12. A computer system having a processor, a memory, and an operating environment, the computer system configured for executing the method recited in claim 1.

13. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the method recited in claim 1.