Friday, May 23, 2014

Basic Overview Of Siemens HMI Software

By Marci Glover


Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary scientific field that deals with the development, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use, as well as to study various aspects of its impact. In the field of computer supported collaborative work, emphasis is placed on the ability of systems to support collaborative interaction of a group of people. The system may be based on the Siemens HMI software.

A set of multiple monitors, devices and control surfaces form a console or management station. From a console, an operator receives notifications and performs control actions. A control room may contain one or more control stations. The control rooms and control stations can be found in many different applications, such as control tower of an airport, control center for police and ambulances and nuclear power plant. The design of the passenger compartment of airplanes and helicopters includes the highly specialized user interfaces.

The most important international conference series in the field of human-computer interaction is the Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems. It is organized by the Special Interest Group. Human-machine interaction (HMI) defines the means and tools implemented so that humans can control and communicate with a machine. Improving the ergonomics of a man-machine interface in particular the objective of optimizing the development workstation and thus reduce the risks of working on screen (musculoskeletal disorders, eye fatigue, burnout syndrome, stress) is an important aspect. There are many ways for people to interact with surrounding machinery. These ways are very dependent on interaction devices.

HMI places less emphasis on objectives, procedures and physical activity. The problems tackled by HMI operations are a natural extension of the classical objectives of engineering psychology, except that new problems have a significant cognitive, communication and interactive nature, not previously considered in engineering psychology and helped advance the field in various directions.

Some techniques which attempt to make the interaction more natural include automatic speech recognition or gestures used to send information to a computer. TTS allows you to send audio signal understandable by humans. Data gloves offer a more direct option to the mouse interaction. The HMIs try to immerse users in a virtual reality or augment reality. Interactive tables provide a strong coupling between the direct manipulation by users on a device and feedback.

On the computer side, technology design of computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages and development environments is important. On the human side, communication theory, linguistics, sociology and cognitive psychology are critical aspects. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of human-computer interaction, people with different levels of training contribute to its success.

One can observe that the HMI are increasingly disconnected from the actual implementation of controlled mechanisms. Alan Cooper distinguishes three interface paradigms: technological paradigm - the interface reflects how the controlled mechanism is built. The paradigm of metaphor that can mimic the behavior of an interface as an object of everyday life and thus already controlled by the user. Idiomatic paradigm that uses interface elements in stereotyped behavior, consistent and therefore easy to learn but not necessarily modeled on real-life objects.

Researchers are involved in the development of new methods of design, experimentation with new hardware devices, prototyping new software systems, exploring new paradigms for interaction and the development of theories and models of interaction. In a study of Personal Information Manager (PIM), human-computer interaction makes it an expansive information environment - people can work with various forms of information to understand and effectively influence the desired changes.




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