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Control rooms represent critical infrastructures important for security and well-being of humans. While they have changed considerably with respect to information technologies within the last 30 years, user interfaces are, as our studies revealed, still characterized by windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP). Further research on novel interaction design concepts for multi-monitor WIMP applications is necessary in addition to smart control room and pervasive computing environments approaches. In this study, we examined how control room operators can be supported in their daily work with multi- monitor applications. Based on human-centred design activities, the gaze-supported mouse interaction design concept “Look & Drop”, approaching the most common interaction problems, e.g. moving the mouse pointer to distant screens, was developed. Results of a laboratory study, expert reviews and a proof of concept installation at a previously unknown control room indicate that Look & Drop could support operators at state-of-the-art control room workstations.
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Flegel, N., Pick, C., Mentler, T. (2021). A Gaze-Supported Mouse Interaction Design Concept for State-of-the-Art Control Rooms. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Groff, F. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV. IHIET-AI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_26
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