Rosemary Garris

Navy · Experimental & Applied Human Performance R&D Division

Although most agree that games can be engaging and that games can be instructive, there is little consensus regarding the essential characteristics of instructional games. Implicit in the research literature is the notion that if we pair instructional content with certain game features, we can harness the power of games to engage users and achieve...

The design of large scale information displays is addressed. Problems with traditional approaches to display design are discussed. It is argued that the evolving nature of humans' roles in complex systems will exacerbate these problems. A model-based framework for display design is proposed involving system models, task models, and humans' models o...

Traditional maintenance information includes large graphical drawings that are difficult to portray on the small screens of computer-based maintenance information systems. The research described investigates the design of graphical displays using display abstraction and aggregation as design parameters. A display's aggregation level reflects the fi...