Towards an “Intelligent” Editor of Industrial Control Views, Using Rules for Ergonomic Design

A model based approach to semi-automated user interface generation for process control interactive applications

“…this formalism has been validated during different projects concerning UI evaluation or design since the eighties. See, for instance, Mackinlay [79], Perlman [80], Kolski et al [14,16], Martin [81] or Wiecha et al [82], where different LISP or PROLOG approaches have been tested, and have proved the feasibility of knowledge-based approaches.…”

“…Since the eighties, a research way studied by some researchers concerns knowledge-based approaches for automatic evaluation and design of UI used in process control [12,13,14,15,16,17]. To our knowledge, few knowledge-based prototypes have been tested in the field of process control.…”

A rule-based approach to the ergonomic “static” evaluation of man-machine graphic interface in industrial processes

“…-a "work" zone which presents the "star", -an "advices" zone which proposes prevention advices (on the right part and at the bottom of the screen), -a "menu" zone which provides the operator with the usable displays (on the right part and at the top), -a "command" zone which allows the call of a menu (on the left and at the top). The knowledge implemented in the SYNOP bases is divided into two parts, the general knowledge and the specific knowledge (Kolski, Van Daele et al, 1988) :…”

An approach towards the design of intelligent man-machine interfaces used in process control

“…One such development, the GRADIENT project (part of the ESPRIT program), is devoted to the development of expert systems for supporting control room operators and graphic systems in the fields of process supervision and control Johannsen et al, 1986). We can also cite the SYNOP expert system which is used for the static evaluation and automatic improvement of control displays (Kolski, 1989;Kolski et al, 1988), and other studies related to the ERGO-CONCEPTOR system composed by a set of interactive graphical design tools, based on the informational requirements of the operator (Moussa et al, 1990).…”