A Human Factors Based User Interface Design

This paper reports first results of the GMD project “User Interface Design Assistance (IDA)”. The objective of this project is to develop computer based design aid tools for a human factor based user interface design. The reasons for concentrating on human factors are their increasing importance in the new European Economic Area and the lack of knowledge of the designers in the area of human factors. The design aid tools are integrated in a user interface management system (UIMS) to support the designers during the development process. The aim is to impart human factors knowledge for innovative user interfaces (e.g. object-oriented graphical interfaces; 3-D user interfaces; hypermedia user interfaces) to the designers. This will be done with the help of design aid tools, like a composition tool, a tutoring tool and a quality assurance tool. They are presented in some detail. First results have shown, that it is principally possible to realise such design aid tools