The study, financed under a program of the European Space Agency (ESA) examined how the Human-Computer Interface in unmanned spacecraft operations may change within the next decade.
The study focused on collaboration support in the socio-technical system of the ground segment, as well as the evaluation of user experience of modern HCI technologies with existing ESA software applications.
The study followed a human-centered design approach with close participation of users, including observations and user workshops.
First, a task analysis and a technology review were carried out to identify scenarios and user needs. These were incorporated in an interaction design, which focused on the collaboration support.
This interaction design was implemented in a fully functional demonstrator which included an operator console, touch devices and a touch table, and evaluated subsequently.
Human Computer Interfaces
Collaboration
Task Analysis
Human Centered Design
Multitouch interfaces
Jan Charles Lenk, Andreas Lüdtke, Alexandr Puchkovskiy, Denis Javaux, Georges Vroonen, Giovanni Scotti, Sonja Sievi, Collin Haddow, Felix Flentge; SpaceOps 2014 Conference ; 05 / 2014