Internship Programmes
 
User Interface Design for Mobile Control Devices

Discipline: Human Factors Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (Design), Computer Engineering

Project Description:
Explore innovation user interface (UI) design concepts for the development of user-friendly UI for mobile control device. The mobile device will be used to control robots to accomplish a range of tasks.

The intern will conduct research on UI design concepts for Human-Robot Interaction.  He/She will also assist the team in translating user requirements into design concepts. Finally, there will also be opportunities for the intern to participate in the prototyping and evaluation of the UI concepts generated.  In this project, the intern will be able to learn about Human Factors Considerations for mobile devices and how these considerations can be used to generate user-friendly UI design concepts for mobile devices.

The challenge of the project:
The project aims to understand user requirements/needs and translate these requirements/needs into innovative UI design concepts that can be used to control multiple robots using a mobile control device. Mobile devices have limited screen size. As such, it will be a challenge to display a wide range of information on a small display. In addition, the UI has to allow operators to interact with the mobile control device intuitively and effectively.

Pre-requisite:
Interest in user interface design, Human Factors (HF) Engineering or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Preferably equipped with skills in Flash, Actionscript, Illustrator, HF experiment design and evaluation.