[chisigmail] SA CHI next meeting 27th May + advance notice of June meeting

[Karen Hughes]

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 
             - its 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 karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au
<mailto:karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au>  (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.

 

June Meeting details: 24th June (same time and place)

Title: Applications of Speech Technology

Presenter: Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari, Human Interaction Capabilities, C3I
Division, DSTO

 

Thanks
Karen Hughes
SA Representative

CHISIG
mob: +61 -4 1788 4876

 

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