Book Description

The Man-Machine Integration Design and Analysis System (MIDAS) is an integrated suite of software components that constitutes a prototype workstation to aid designers in applying human factors principles to the design of complex human-machine systems. MIDAS is intended to be used at the very early stages of conceptual design to provide an environment wherein designers can use computational representations of the crew station and operator, instead of hardware simulators and man-in-the-loop studies, to discover problems and ask 'what if' questions regarding the projected mission, equipment, and environment. This document is the Software Product Specification for MIDAS. Introductory descriptions of the processing requirements, hardware/software environment, structure, I/O, and control are given in the main body of the document for the overall MIDAS system, with detailed discussion of the individual modules included in Annexes A-J. Banda, Carolyn and Bushnell, David and Chen, Scott and Chiu, Alex and Constantine, Betsy and Murray, Jerry and Neukom, Christian and Prevost, Michael and Shankar, Renuka and Staveland, Lowell Unspecified Center NASA-CR-177593, A-92049, NAS 1.26:177593 NAS2-13210...