Agent-oriented design of human–computer interface: application to supervision of an urban transport network

Houcine Ezzedine (1) , Christophe Kolski (1) , André Péninou

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

At the present time, the approaches found in the design of interactive systems use a modular structure, with the aim of achieving a better understanding of reactivity, flexibility, maintainability and reuse at the human–machine interface level. However, most architecture models are far more concerned with user-controlled applications and they do not consider the specificities of supervision applications in which the human operator acts as the controller and commander of an independent dynamic process. A multi-agent approach is a possible answer to this type of situation. The agent-oriented model put forward in this article is the subject of an application intended in the long term to supervise the user information system of an urban transport network.

Mots clés: Multi-agent systems; Architecture; Human–machine interface; Interactive systems; Specification; Design; Modeling; Supervision; Urban transport systems

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Houcine Ezzedine, Christophe Kolski, André Péninou. Agent-oriented design of human–computer interface: application to supervision of an urban transport network. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2005, 18 (3), pp.255-270. ⟨10.1016/j.engappai.2004.09.013⟩. ⟨hal-03279269⟩