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The ANIMS project is carried out in collaboration between the Eurocontrol agency, researchers in user interfaces from IntuiLab and visual and sound designers from Intactile Design.
It aims at assessing how the use of animation and sound in the user interface of air traffic control tools can improve their efficiency and safety of operation.
Conducted during year 2004, the first phase of the project provided a state of the art of the use of animation and sound in user interfaces across all application domains. Based on that knowledge, the work with ATC experts allowed the selection of five ATC scenarios that were likely candidates to take advantage of the most documented benefits of sound and animation.
The scenarios are:
- distinguishing STCA and ACAS-RA alerts;
- accessing to more information in line 0 of a flight label;
- presenting STCA type/urgency/importance;
- identification of the calling flight;
- animations and sound in a sequence manager.
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Finally, the design and prototyping phase produced demonstrators for all these scenarios.
The work performed in the first year of the project provided ground for a second phase to be conducted during years 2005 and 2006. The two selected research axes for ANIMS Phase 2 are:
- assessing more formally the benefit of animation and sounds in user interfaces
- WP2 Assessing human factors benefits of animation
- WP4 ATC Sound Samples Library
- WP5 Experimental protocol
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- proposing a specification method and development tools to integrate sound and animations in user interfaces.
- WP1 Specification Method for Animation and Sound
- WP3 Animated themes or How to give a personality to graphical objects?
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Last validation: 15/03/2007
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