Human-Systems Integration

Multimodal Interaction Design

Design Interactive is driven to developing proven theoretically and empirically driven multimodal design guidance that results in enhanced situation awareness, decision making and human performance. Our Multimodal Information Perceptualization (MIP) techniques strive to optimize the distribution of perceptual and cortical processing and thus take advantage of the totality of human processing capacity through activation of multiple perceptual (visual, aural, haptic, olfactory), cognitve (verbal, spatial), and response (speech, motor) channels. These techniques aim to transform multimodal interaction design from its current state of whim to a systematic design science.

Physiological Assessment

Design Interactive has vast experience with physiological measures that can be implemented to assess problems in the design of products, related to the interface layout or cognitive constructs such as workload, alertness or stress. We have worked with sensor kits for measuring heart rate, oculor-motor activity (eye tracking) and electroencephalogram (EEG) metrics. With these techniques we are able to identify problems that cannot be assessed with traditional design methods. Physiological Assessment is particularly valuable for complex and/or safety-critical systems with high demands on operator cognition.

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Other DI services:

Usability Engineering/ User-Centered Design

Training Systems Design and Evaluation

Next-Generation HSI Research

For more information on any of these services, please contact us.