Human-Computer Interaction in Critical Systems
Call for Papers
A critical system is a system where failure can lead to high economic loss, physical damage, personal injuries, or loss of life. In addition, for time-critical systems in which the human operator has a limited time window within which to diagnose problems and make decisions, the user interface is an important factor in the outcome of crisis management. User interfaces for this type of systems should be well designed, easy to understand, and supportive of knowledge discovery. Examples of such systems are aircraft or nuclear power station control systems, satellite or ambulance control, military or space command-control systems, telerobotics, financial systems, surgical and diagnostic systems used in medicine. We call for original papers from academia as well as industry, in any field, related to human-computer interaction in critical systems.
Topics for this special issue cover the field of critical systems related, but not limited, to applications for aviation, finance, medicine, military, power generation, process control, robotics, and space. Specific topics of interest may include:
- Design and evaluation of user interface usability, situation awareness, human error, and cognitive workload
- Alternate interface modalities for HCI
- Human-machine team interaction and/or coordination
- Interfaces that incorporate advanced visualization techniques, multimodal, augmented reality, or mixed reality interaction.
- Evolutionary-based techniques for the design of critical systems interfaces
- Interfaces for crisis management and decision making
- Interfaces for fault diagnosis
- Interfaces for teleoperation
Authors should follow the Advances in Human-Computer Interaction manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the Journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:, according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | June 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | September 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | December 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors:
- Caroline G. L. Cao, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
- Guadalupe Muñoz, University Antonio de Nebrija, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Julie A. Adams, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA