27 May 2008, 5:30 for 5:45 start
When: Tuesday 27th May from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start
Title: Luminance, Contrast and Character Size Requirements for Naval Combat System Displays
Speaker: Kingsley Fisher, DSTO
Where: Excom – Ground Floor, North Lobby, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts)
Parking: There is a lot of parking either on Pulteney and Flinders St or in Hindmarsh SQ – it's metered but generally only until 6pm (so not much money) and frees up at the right time :-]
Format is intended to be fairly informal: drinks and nibbles on arrival
Presentation from about 5:45 followed by a discussion
Finally networking and more drinks and nibbles
RSVP: to sarep@chisig.org (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise). If you don’t remember to RSVP you are still most welcome :-]
Food and nibbles: gold coin donation to cover costs or if you are able to assist in providing food or nibbles please let me know in your RSVP.
Abstract
Naval combat system displays aim to provide operators with the information necessary to successfully achieve mission objectives. Increasing the information displayed per screen can potentially improve operator performance by reducing the need to search multiple screens. Reducing text and symbol size is one method of increasing information density, but text that is too small is difficult to read and can lead to delays and errors. Existing military and civilian standards provide recommendations on minimum character heights, but these standards appear to be based on the results of studies using low-resolution CRT displays. Thus the recommendations may not be applicable to modern high-resolution LCD screens. The standards also appear to be based on studies performed under bright ambient lighting and may not be directly applicable to naval operations rooms which often operate under darkened conditions. Results will be presented from a series of studies that aimed to identify the required luminance, contrast and size of white and coloured characters to optimised speed and accuracy of identification when displayed on a high-resolution LCD under both low and high ambient lighting conditions. The studies were performed in both on-land and at-sea conditions in order to identify whether a larger character size is necessary to maintain identification performance in an at-sea environment.
Bio
Kingsley Fletcher is a Research Scientist with the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organisation's Maritime Operations Division. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Adelaide in 1986 and worked in telecommunications engineering before moving into human factors after receiving Bachelor of Health Science (Hons) in Psychology from University of Adelaide in 2005. He is currently undertaking a PhD with the University of Queensland aimed at modelling cognitive workload in naval combat system operators.
27 May 2008, 6pm for 6:30 start
Panel: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects
Tuesday 27 May 6 pm (for 6.30 start)
Panel participants are:
The panel will be moderated by Andrew Sweany from Monash University.
Our panel guests will debate the pros and cons of user-centred design on Agile development projects. We have an exciting list of questions for the debate.
Don’t miss out!
Date and Time:
Tuesday 27 May
6pm for 6:30pm start
Venue:
Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
(see below map)
Silvia Sanchez on behalf of VIC CHISIG Committee
8 December 2008,
CHISIG's major annual conference, OZCHI, will be held in Cairns, QLD, Australia between 8-12 December, 2008.