CARE-INO ANIMS: Animation and Sound in ATC Human Machine Interfaces

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CARE-INO ANIMSAnimation and Sound in ATC Human
Machine Interfaces

• December 6, 2005

Céline Schlienger IntuiLab, celine_at_intuilab.com
Christophe Mertz IntuiLab, mertz_at_intuilab.com Yve
s Rinato Intactile Design, rinato.y_at_intactile.com
Claire Ollagnon Intactile Design,
ollagnon.c_at_intactile.com
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Outline

• The ANIMS project why, who?
• ANIMS Phase 1
• ANIMS Phase 2
• Available results
• Remaining work

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ANIMS why?

• Improving the efficiency and safety of ATM user
  interfaces with visual animations and sound
• More efficient interfaces through better
• communication from machine to user
• communication between users

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ANIMS who?

• Eurocontrol
• Project steering
• ATC HMI experts
• IntuiLab
• HMI and Human-factor centre of expertise (RD)
• ATC background
• Intactile Design
• graphical and sound designers for HMIs
• Domain experts
• Human-factors experts (Eurocontrol, CENA)

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ANIMS Phase 1

• Year 2004
• State of the art
• Animation definitions, models, techniques,
  typical uses, human factors
• Sound definition, typical uses, human factors
• Five ATC scenarios and five corresponding
  demonstrations

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Alarms differentiation (STCATCAS)
Reduce cognitive load (Watermarking)
Reducing information overload (Line0)
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ANIMS Phase1 conclusions

• Animations and sound are powerful
• Several applications to improve situation
  awareness
• New design spaces
• Many possible animations types
• ATC relevant sounds
• Storyboards for prototyping and describing
  animation and sound

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Open questions...

• Benefits are intuitive, not proven
• From storyboards to specifications?
• Implementation, architecture, retrofit?
• Better understanding of sound design needed
• Design dimensions
• Design elements and context
• Reusable designs patterns for animations in ATC?

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Stakes for Phase 2

• Formally assess human-factor benefits of
  animations and sounds
• Be ready to develop such interfaces
• From definition phases
• to operational development

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ANIMS Phase 2

• Years 2005 and 2006
• Objective 1 Specification and tools
• How to specify animations and inclusion of sound
  in animations (2005)
• propose animation development tools (2006)
• Objective 2 Experiments
• assess the benefits of animations and sounds in
  user interfaces

Obj1
Obj2
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Specification Method
Obj1

• Propose methods and techniques to share
  animations and sound specifications between
  designers and developers
• Progression
• Method for animation only
• Applied by motion designers
• Integration of sounds in specification of
  animation

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Specification method for animation
Obj1
Visual aspects
Technical aspects
Temporal aspects
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Specification method Proof of concept
Obj1

• Applied on
• 3 examples
• specified by designers
• implemented by programmers

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Specification Method Integration of sound
Obj1

• Sounds in animations
• Opening, sustaining, closing
• Restricted to pre-recorded sound
• Add-ons (objects, sequencing, storyboarding)

Starts
Plays
Stops
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Available results
Obj1

• Specification method for animation and sound
• Will be used to specify the conditions of the
  experiment
• Animation only
• Animation sound
• may need wider validation

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Experiments
Obj2

• Assess human-factors benefits of animation and
  sound
• Formally
• In complex animated interfaces
• In credible experimentation context

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Experiments
Obj2
2005
2006
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Applications development
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Animation design and sound context
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Experiments
Choose the experiments
Analysis of experiment results and conclusions
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Define experimental protocol
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Animation Design
Obj2
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• Problem
• Code object type or group objects
• using colors (flight status)
• using animations (alerts)
• Avoid Christmas tree effect
• Solution
• ? Structure animated displays by
• giving a personality to graphical objects

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Set of isolated animations
Obj2
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• Entrance of a graphical object in the scene

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Set of isolated animations
Obj2
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• Expression of the state of the object

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Set of isolated animations
Obj2
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• Automatic movements of the objects

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Set of isolated animations
Obj2
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• Interaction with other objects

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Demonstrations of usein ATC context
Obj2
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En-Route Traffic Planner
List of Ground Mobiles
Clearances on ground
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Sound Context
Obj2
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• Realistic experimental conditions
• Recreate realistic ATC room atmosphere
• Design and test sounds in context
• ? Recordings in ATC rooms

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Recordings in ATC rooms
Obj2
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• Filtering and mixing
• Sound scenarios
• Low/High sound activity
• EnRoute/Departure/Arrival

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Choice of the experiments
Obj2
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• State of the art
• Expected benefits
• Experimentation methods
• Workshop on how to assess
• Situation Awareness
• Single user performance
• Group performance
• 8 experiments proposed, 2 chosen

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Experiment 1
Obj2
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• Conditions
• nothing
• blinking
• animations
• sound
• combinations

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Experiment 2
Obj2
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No animation With animation
Nothing Blinking Animations Sound
Averty ATM05 CENA - NR05/534
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Available results
Obj2

• Experimental protocol for 2 experiments
• Set of animations
• Sound scenarios for demonstrations, training,
  sound design
• 14 hours of recording

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Remaining work Specification and tools

• ? Propose tools for animation development in
  accordance with specification method
• Study on software architecture and models
• Integration in software tools
• Test in the development of the experiment
  prototypes

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Remaining work Experiments

• Sound and animation specification
• Development
• Experiments
• Result analysis and conclusions

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Other perspectives

• Sound extract isolated typical ATC sounds
• Recreate any ATC room atmosphere
• Simulate unexpected situations
• Animation
• Assess benefits of animation on single user and
  group performance
• Role of animations in direct manipulation

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For more

• Come to the show room and
• meet us for more details
• see demos and posters
• Connect to
• http//www.eurocontrol.int/care-innov/public/stand
  ard_page/innov2_anims.html
• http//www.eurocontrol.int/care-innov/public/stand
  ard_page/care2_projects2005.html

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Documents

• Specification Method for Animation and Sound
• Animated Themes or How to give a personality to
  graphical objects?
• ATC Sound Samples Library
• Assessing human-factors benefits of animation
• Experimental protocol