Konzeption eines Unterstützungswerkzeugs für die Gestaltung ...

As the development periods of service panels or service systems are getting shorter and as the stress
of competition increases, the need of supporting tools for ergonomic Human- Interface-Devices
becomes much more important. Pressure is also created by raised norms and standards for
automobiles, which have to be considered by today’s developers. The aim of this thesis is to provide
a module that supports the entire development process for service panels within the Porsche
corporation. At present, existing tools cover the configuration of service panels only partly and not
through the entire process of development, as a detailed analysis has shown.
Hence a concept for the supportive module PoCKET (Porsche Consulting and Knowledge
Engineering Tool) was developed within this thesis. It has been integrated in a tool-support chain,
which is elaborately described in Bock (2007) and Heilig (2007). On the one hand PoCKET is a system
that supports developers during the configuration of service panels in the dimensions interface,
information and interaction design. On the other hand it provides a knowledge management system
in which collaborative evolved information can be stored and accessed.
In order to develop a system that perfectly fits the HMI development process of Porsche, a in depth
analysis of the development process has been accomplished. An interview in type of a questionnaire
has been conducted quantitative as well as qualitative to determine the developer’s requirements as
detailed as possible. Therefore these results have been the initial point for an adequate configuration
of the new supportive module. The consideration of existing tools for the configuration of ergonomic
user interfaces has shown that these do not fit the particular industrial requirements of Porsche. For
that reason they can only contribute as a connecting factor to this thesis. The aim of this thesis is to
provide a component, which supports the HMI configuration process of the Porsche corporation
entirely. Hereby the focus of this work lies on the support of specific process periods as well as the
employment incrossproject contexts. The surplus of the supportive module PoCKET is shown by
considering the DATech testing manual for usability development processes. Thus an increasing
quality of the HMI development process can be justified by the application of this module.