Safety enhancement through situation-aware user interfaces

TL;DR

This paper proposes safety-enhanced user interfaces that utilize dynamic profiling and context-awareness to improve mission safety and user experience, demonstrated through proof-of-concept implementations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining situation-aware UI design with autonomic adaptation to enhance safety and user experience.

Findings

Proof-of-concept implementations validate the approach

Dynamic profiling improves context-awareness

Enhanced safety features reduce user errors

Abstract

Due to their privileged position halfway between the physical and the cyber universes, user interfaces may play an important role in preventing, tolerating, and learning from scenarios potentially affecting mission safety and the user's quality of experience. This vision is embodied here in the main ideas and a proof-of-concepts implementation of user interfaces that combine dynamic profiling with context- and situation-awareness and autonomic software adaptation.