user centered technology group overview

User Centered Technology Group

Highlights

NASA Ames Research CenterJay Trimble

jay.p.trimble@nasa.govjtrimble2@gmail.com

10/12

A Touchscreen for Mars

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

• Five years before touchscreens were popular - A touchscreen for Mars Rover Operations

• The technology was later used for Ocean Research, next gen rover field tests and Space Station

Open Source Mission Control

• https://github.com/nasa/mct

• https://sites.google.com/site/openmct/home

Mission Impact

pdstools.arc.nasa.gov

• User tools for Planetary Data Archive and Search

• User Interfaces for Solar System Geometry - Interplanetary geometry for the rest of us

• Planetary Image Search in collaboration with Google

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

Impact on the Organization

•User Centered Design goes from obscurity to mainstream practice

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

UCT Highlights

2001

Human Centered Computing Project

MERBoard Collaborative Touchscreen Deployment

for Mars Rover Test & Training

2002

2003

2004

MERBoard Collaborative Touchscreen Deployment

for Mars Rover Surface Operations

Goal based Rover Control Interface

2005

MarsExploration

Rovers

XBoard

Space Station Operations

Ongoing Mars Rover Surface Operations

Next Gen Rover Field Tests

Next Gen

Data AccountabilityInterface

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

UCT Highlights

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Web-Tools for

Scientists

Data Search for the Public

Home Page Redesignpds.nasa.gov Detailed

User Survey

User Study and Recommendations

Solar SystemGeometry Interface

User Composable

Software

Planetary Data

System

XBoard

XBoard for Monterey Bay Aquarium Research

Institute

Web-based XBoard Collaboration for Space

Station

Initial concept Prototype

Prototype demonstration in ops Technology

Facility

Frameworks, dev toolkit, Components, operational

Tests

In Mission Control

Initial UserCompositions

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

Prototype Mission Control

on iPad

Agile• Deliver

to customer in 3 week intervals

• Release every 3 months

ReleaseRelease

Iteration 1Iteration 1 Iteration 2Iteration 2 Iteration 3Iteration 3 Iteration 4Iteration 4

Release to Mission Control User Test Community

Release to Mission Control User Test Community

Release to Mission Control User Test Community

Release to Mission Control Ops

3 Weeks 6 Weeks 9 Weeks 12 Weeks

jay.p.trimble@nasa.gov

http://www.slideshare.net/jtrimble25/ue-agile-and-lean

Partnering for Solutions

IDEO - Design for Collaborative Mission Systems

IBM Almaden - Blueboard Touchscreen

Google - Planetary Data Search

Adaptive Path - Mission Controlon iPad