An Overview of Research Needs in the Display Systems Design Area

Abstract

A review of the research literature on the design of controls and displays is presented with respect to its application to the design of industrial control rooms such as in railroad yards, chemical plants, refineries and power plants. Differences between designing for military and aircraft systems and industrial systems is discussed. The principle display and operator variables that require further research are: (1) measures of the difficulty of using a display system, (2) measuring the attention capacity of the operator, (3) the effect of the level of abstraction of the information, (4) measurement of the operator's image of the system being controlled, (5) the effect of job experience and training on the approach of the operator of the system and (6) the effect of the age of the operator.

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