MFDTool: A software program for designing optimal multifunction displays

摘要

This paper describes a software program called MFDTool. MFDTool is used to design multifunction displays (MFDs), which enable people to interact with computer information systems. MFDTool characterizes the problem of MFD design as the identification of how people interact with the system and what types of constraints should be imposed by the designer to shape the properties of the MFD. Once this information is provided, MFDTool uses an optimization procedure to build a variety of candidate MFD designs and to identify the MFD design that best satisfies the constraints. An example of MFD de.-sign is discussed.