Designing Interfaces for Dynamic System: a Simulated Bus Traffic Task Testing Anticipatory Behavior

摘要

Codes used to design interfaces in bus traffic control tasks may influence anticipatory behavior. Former studies showed that there is a very wide variety of interfaces in work situations. In order to study anticipatory behavior under different coding conditions, a bus traffic simulator was developed. The experiment conducted used four different interfaces. Results found for three different tasks performed with these interfaces were analyzed in terms of reaction time, nature of responses and precision in drawing future situations. They revealed significant differences between the interface types.