Establishing a user-centered design process for human-machine interfaces: Threats to success

M. Winterer, C. Salomon, G. Buchgeher, M. Zehethofer, A. Derntl. Establishing a user-centered design process for human-machine interfaces: Threats to success. volume 11915, pages 89-102, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_6, 11, 2019.

Autoren
  • Mario Winterer
  • Christian Salomon
  • Georg Buchgeher
  • Martin Zehethofer
  • Alexandra Derntl
Editoren
  • X. Franch
  • T. Männistö
  • S. Martínez-Fernández
BuchProduct-Focused Software Process Improvement - Proc. PROFES 2019
TypIn Konferenzband
VerlagSpringer
SerieLecture Notes in Computer Science
Band11915
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_6
ISBN978-3-030-35332-2
Monat11
Jahr2019
Seiten89-102
Abstract

While user-centered design (UCD) processes have widely been established in domains like end-user electronics and business-toconsumer products, such processes still lack widespread adaptation for the development of industrial human-machine interfaces (HMIs). Over a period of more than two years, we have worked as part of a development team at a company from the manufacturing domain in a pilot project to introduce a UCD process. During this period, we have - via participant observation - collected a set of observed practices and behaviors that violate well-known UCD principles. Furthermore, we derived some root causes of these violations. Our insights are that introducing a UCD processes cannot be performed isolated for a single development team but impacts the entire organization including management and requires trust as well as changes with regard to mindset, methods, technologies, and team organization.