IMAGE: Interface Management through Automated Generation and Evaluation

IMAGE will enable sophisticated evaluation of candidate user interfaces (UIs) along several configuration management dimensions, and will be able to generate UI configurations optimized over the same dimensions.

IMAGE (Interface Management through Automated Generation and Evaluation), was developed under a Phase I US Navy SBIR. SIFT partnered with Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems to evaluate the UI of the Common Submarine Radio Room in the new Virginia Class Submarine. IMAGE will enable sophisticated evaluation of candidate UIs along several configuration management dimensions, and will be able to generate UI configurations optimized over the same dimensions. IMAGE will perform tradeoff reasoning between competing goals during the generation of the UI. IMAGE will also be used to enforce Human Factors standards and guidelines to maintain consistency and compatibility with other systems or prior UI versions for similar tasks.