Designing a glanceable peripheral display for severity-based multiple alarm notification

  • Authors:
  • Daniela Angelucci;Stefania Di Paolo;Laura Tarantino

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

  • Venue:
  • HSI'09 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Human System Interactions
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We report on a work in progress aimed at designing an innovative alarm notification component for telecommunication management systems. The design is based on a peripheral display that notifies faults with different levels of severity. The system is responsible for determining the alarm severity and for visualizing its description with an appropriate level of details by using visual coding techniques and interruption mechanisms consistent with the urgency degree of the notification: low severity alarms are associated with few data conveyed in a subliminal way, where as more urgent alarms are associated with notifications requiring focal attention and technical intervention.