Blended Interaction as an Approach for Holistic Control Room Design

Control rooms are facilities that serve as operations centers to supervise complex processes, e.g. in power plants or industrial production plants. In today’s control rooms operators mainly interact with these processes via desktop computers. From a cognitive point of view mediation of process dynamics by means of keyboard, mouse and computer displays is insufficient as perception is heavily reduced to the visual sense. Mounted on the framework Blended Interaction we present novel interaction styles that holistically address the domain specific requirements and support several forms of interaction in control room environments