Of Models, Rationales and Prototypes: Studying Designer Needs in an Airborne Maritime Surveillance Drawing Tool to Support Audio Communication

Abstract

In this work, we seek to understand the needs of interaction designers involved in industrial system engineering processes. While current research offers a set of methods and tools for them, we believe that more empirical user studies focusing on designers are needed, in particular to support how model-based activity analysis may inform their decisions. Our designers’ need analysis is conducted through participatory design and contextual inquiry, and applied through a real use-case project: a distributed tactile tool for airborne maritime surveillance. Thanks to this study, we report on our insights on the usability problems and needs related in particular to scenario-based modeling, model-based design rationales and design-based model refinement.

Contributors

Catherine Letondal

Pierre-Yves Pillain

Emile Verdurand

Daniel Prun

Olivier Grisvard

Conference

Publication date: September 2014

Publication date (Print): September 2014

Pages: 72-81

Affiliations

Univ. Toulouse, ENAC

31055 Toulouse, France

Télécom Bretagne

Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 3192

29238 Brest, France

Télécom Bretagne / THALES

29238 Brest, France

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2014.11

Copyright statement: © Catherine Letondal et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), Southport, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 28

Conference location: Southport, UK

Conference date: 9 - 12 September 2014

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Categories

Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing