Usability testing of system status displays for army missile defense

  • Authors:
  • LTC Micheal Perrin;Bobby Ford;Dick Steinberg

  • Affiliations:
  • THAAD Program Office, Huntsville, AL;THAAD Program Office, Huntsville, AL;W.J. Schafer, Huntsville, AL

  • Venue:
  • CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Modernizing workstations for Military applications is a challenge: designers must increase performance without affecting safety in any way. Furthermore, interaction efficiency is required to avoid fatigue and minimize error rates which could cost lives. Soldiers are understandably reluctant to use a new interface design on systems where life critical decisions are made. It is paramount to obtain user assessment of Interface Designs early and continually throughout the software development cycle to insure user acceptance and optimize user performance. Statistical based usability tests were performed with soldiers to determine display designs for the U.S. Army's Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Radar Soldier User Interface.