Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for an Airport Management Simulation

This paper describes how we designed and evaluated user interfaces for the human in the loop ACDM simulation. We will show how our requirement analysis was conducted. Firstly, stakeholder roles and process descriptions of airport management were generalized to fundamental information and actions. Generic functionalities were then derived for the user interfaces. To achieve a realistic look and feel, operational tools of major airport stakeholder were analyzed; published information as well as photos and reports of Air Traffic Operation Centers in Europe by DLR staff were analyzed. These were distilled into a requirement list, followed by the design process. The design process combined the operational lookalike with the defined generic actions to a user interface.