The Virtual Camera Concept

Boy, Guy André; Mazzone, Rebecca; Conroy, Michael

doi:10.1201/ebk1439834916-c55

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“…Astronauts and ground personnel never stop switching from one to the other. In this section of the article, I will use the virtual camera concept, initially developed in the context of the NASA Lunar Electric Rover 25 (LER) for the exploration of the Moon (Boy et al 2010;Platt 2013;Platt et al 2013;Platt & Boy 2014), describing its salient parts that enable presentation of generic HCD principles. Aerospace and more generally complex life-critical system domains involve expert and experienced human operators, which is not the case in public domains such as telephony and office automation.…”

Section: Discovering Generic Concepts From Observations During Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this section of the article, I will use the virtual camera concept, initially developed in the context of the NASA Lunar Electric Rover 25 (LER) for the exploration of the Moon (Boy et al. 2010; Boy & Platt 2013; Platt 2013; Platt et al. 2013; Platt & Boy 2014), describing its salient parts that enable presentation of generic HCD principles.…”

Section: Discovering Generic Concepts From Observations During Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Human-centered design of complex systems: An experience-based approach

Boy

2017

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This position paper presents a new approach based on my experience in the evolution of human-centered design (HCD) during four decades, and how it has struggled to become a discipline in its own right in complex socio-technical systems' creation, development and operations. The 20th century saw tremendous industrial developments based on tangible materials that were transformed and assembled to make washing machines, cars, aircraft and power plants; during its last three decades, electronics and software were incrementally added to hardware machines. Operationalization issues moved from hardware to software, making automation and user interfaces central issues. From the beginning of the 21st century, we began to do the exact opposite! Currently, we typically start a project by designing and developing technology on computers, using software only, which is later transformed into hardware (and software). I denote this shift, the 'socio-technical inversion' . Operationalization issues are moving from software to hardware, making tangibility a central issue. Three useful conceptual models are presented: the SFAC (Structure/Function versus Abstract/Concrete) model; the NAIR (Natural/Artificial versus Cognitive/Physical) model; and the AUTOS (Artifact, User, Task, Organization and Situation) pyramid. Concepts developed in this article are based on the rationalization of a long experience in the aerospace domain.

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Section: Discovering Generic Concepts From Observations During Designmentioning

confidence: 99%