User-Centered Design (UCD) Process Description

Abstract

In this report, human factors engineers from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) describe the user-centered design (UCD) engineering process as a method to design, develop, and build sensible graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for command and control (C2) equipment. UCD is an SSC Pacific best practice within the human factors engineering (HFE) domain of human systems integration to optimize the design of the C2 human-machine interface by reducing the equipment operator's cognitive burden of assimilating and acting upon disparate C2 information. The UCD process follows an analytical HFE design methodology that involves direct user engagement sessions to construct cognitive models of command situational awareness, workflows, use cases, and other artifacts to directly support rapid and agile prototyping.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA615926

Entities

People

  • Alan Lemon
  • Deborah Gill-hesselgrave
  • Michael Cowen

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Prototypes
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Government
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Software Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space