ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that cognitively engineered user interfaces will enhance user-computer performance. This was accomplished by designing an interface using empirical findings from the cognitive literature. The interface was then tested and evaluated via a storyboard prototype. The chapter presents a case study of the domain Anti-Submarine Warfare. The interface designed for this study is for a decision-support system to be used by an Approach Officer during an Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapons Launch and Monitoring process consisting of two tasks: “Verify Firing Solution,” and “Bring Ownship to Readiness.” Human information-processing system can be driven either conceptually (top-down) or by events (bottom-up); all input data make demands on processing resources, and all data must be accounted for; that is, some conceptual schema must be found for which the data are appropriate. Information about the world is represented internally in multiple ways, including mental images that can be inspected and manipulated.
