On complexity reduction of user interfaces for safety-critical systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7465 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 108-122

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Popova, Evgenia ^a   Peischl, Bernhard ^b   Ziefle, Martina ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Softnet Austria   (Austria)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complexity reduction; data visualization; industrial design; process visualization; safety critical systems; usability engineering

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MAPS; COMPLEX DATA; COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; DATA UPDATE; GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION; HUMAN EXPERT; PLANT PERSONNEL; PROCESS VISUALIZATION; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DATA; USER-CENTERED; USER-CENTERED APPROACH; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA VISUALIZATION; INCINERATION; POWER PLANTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SECURITY SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84865658377     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32498-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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