User Interface Development Tool

This proposal presents the concept of a User Tailorable Interface Development System (UTIDS) to facilitate the ability of users to dynamically specify the information required for their mission control tasks and minimize the effort required to tailor the interface to be adaptable for multimission operations. Although significant strides have been made in the development of usable and effective human computer interfaces (HCI), most of the effort has been focused on tools for use by designers that specify how the user will provide information to the computer, e.g., input dialogues. To provide the capabilities needed for dynamic and complex real-world applications, a tool that can be employed by the user to specify the identification and presentation of information is needed. The key focus of UTIDS is that only by empowering the user to specify and design the needed visualization and integration capabilities can the real-world complexity of the user tasks be managed and optimized.