Development of a Naval Air Warfare Decision Support Interface Using Rapid Prototyping Techniques

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our development of a Naval air warfare decision support interface called the Response Manager using rapid prototyping and Decision-Centered Design. Specifically, we took eight steps to ensure that our design would meet the needs of its intended users and possess a high degree of usability: 1) recruit expert informants, 2) assemble a comprehensive set of possible features to be used in the design, 3) have experts evaluate and rank these features for development priority, 4) generate alternative display concepts for several higher ranked features, 5) have experts evaluate these alternative designs through interviews and surveys, 6) generate display designs that integrate the knowledge gained from the previous steps and incorporate human factors interface design guidelines, 7) have experts evaluate these display designs through interviews and surveys, and 8) repeat steps 4-7 as resources allow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA461238

Entities

People

  • Clyde A Smith
  • Daniel I. Manes
  • Mark St. John
  • Ronald A. Moore

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Information Centers
  • Command And Control
  • Engineering
  • Indicators
  • Iterations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Research
  • Naval Warfare
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes
  • Software Prototyping
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Threat Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.