Effects of coherent, integrated, and context-dependent adaptable user interfaces on operators ’ situation awareness, performance, and workload

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of the three previously developed user interface concepts on operators ’ situation awareness, task performance, and workload to gain better insights into the benefits and limitations of the user interface design concepts. The effects were tested in a simulator environment. The results show that user interface features of an integrated user interface allowed operators to apply more effective information processing, which resulted in better task performance. Features of a context-dependent adaptable user interface triggered proactive behavior of operators, which resulted in better task performance for tasks in which operators require insight into future activitie s of the elements in the environment.
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research