Le Contrôle Aérien Militaire au Bout des Doigts: Une Conception Multi-touch Centrée Utilisateur

ABSTRACT

Recent technological advances have led to an increasing presence of multi-touch surfaces in daily consumer products. Still, many challenges remain when designing and evaluating dedicated multi-touch applications in safety and time critical domains. Our research goal was to investigate the value of multi-touch technology in the real work situation of military Air Traffic Control (ATC) with a user-centered approach. After gathering end-user's requirements via workshops, an existing ATC source application was adapted to be used on a multi-touch display. Finally, user evaluations were completed via observations and questionnaires. Findings suggested that multi-touch technology is suitable (satisfaction and effectiveness) for the ATC operational tasks, especially for graphical objects manipulation.

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Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)