Evaluation of Alternative Waveforms for Animated Mimic Displays

Encoding apparent motion in animated mimic displays.

Animated mimic displays represent system components, the physical connections between components, and the analogical flow of information or resources. These displays have the potential to improve the effectiveness of both training and real-time performance. One animation technique that is particularly efficient (from a computational perspective) is color table animation, which produces a subjec...

Spatial and temporal frequency in animated mimic displays

The Potential for Misinterpretation Considered More Globally: A Response to Vicente and Ethier

We begin by considering the study by Bennett and Malek (this issue) in a broader context. Static mimic displays provide a domain perspective that is critical: the layout of system components, physical connections, and sensors. Existing display technology provides the ability to represent the flow of resources through a system dynamically. Not surprisingly, designers have attempted to exploit th...

PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR DISSEMINATE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHORS Students’ preferences and beliefs regarding visual displays as a component of graphicacy

The literature on how students process graphics in domains in which they are not knowledgeable suggests that they possess some general knowledge and skills on how to interpret, generate and evaluate graphics over a large variety of types and domains, what we call here graphicacy. Few studies investigated the subjective component of graphicacy, in the sense of preference and perception of self-e...

Why Fluid Dynamics Matters for Display Design in Process Control: Commentary on Bennett and Malek

As its name implies, cognitive engineering requires attention to the properties of both human cognition and engineering systems. Bennett and Malek (this issue) have done an exemplary job of investigating properties of human cognition that are pertinent to the design of animated mimic displays for process control systems. In so doing, however, they may have inadvertently overlooked some potentia...