Development of a Naval Air Warfare Decision Support Interface Using Rapid Prototyping Techniques

In this paper, we describe our development of a Naval air warfare decision support interface called the Response Manager using rapid prototyping and Decsion-Centered Design. Specifically, we took eight steps to ensure that our design would meet the needs of its intended users and possess a high degree of usability: 1) recruit expert informants, 2) assemble a comprehensive set of possible features to be used in the design, 3) have experts evaluate and rank these features for development priority, 4) generate alternative display concepts for several higher ranked features, 5) have experts evaluate these alternative designs through interviews and surveys, 6) generate display designs that integrate the knowledge gained from the previous steps and incorporate human factors interface design guidelines, 7) have experts evaluate these display designs through interviews and surveys, and 8) repeat steps 4-7 as resources allow.