KONECT: Implementation and Extension of a Method for the Development of Safety-Critical Human-Machine Interaction Interfaces

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Saager, M., Osterloh, J.-P. and Brück, Y. (2022) 'KONECT: Implementation and Extension of a Method for the Development of Safety-Critical Human-Machine Interaction Interfaces', *Human Factors in Software and Systems Engineering*, 61, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.54941/ahfe1002515. Compiled into [[konect-interface-design-method-monitoring]].

A position/method paper from DLR (Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility, Oldenburg) on KONECT, an engineering-driven method (originated by M.-C. Harre) for systematically deriving information visualizations for monitoring tasks in safety-critical systems, so that the resulting HMI minimises operator reaction time to critical states. The paper describes the method's four steps (information determination; idea box; glyph sketching; design composition), its quantitative "KONECT value K", the current JavaFX tool, and a set of planned extensions (multimodal output, adaptive HMIs, a new web tool with in-tool HTA and a glyph/design-composition editor). Motivated explicitly by remote operators monitoring autonomous vehicles in mission/remote control centres. Born-digital (LaTeX) PDF, clean text layer, OCR ok; AHFE Open Access; verified via the RAW PDF and DOI.

**Pagination note.** Printed page footers 1–8 match the PDF pages exactly: locators use **PDF p. N = orig. p. N** (offset 0).

**Citation note.** The body repeatedly cites "(Harre 2018)" but the reference list holds **Harre 2019** (dissertation) and **Harre & Feuerstack 2018** (the KONECT value paper); these are the same body of work by the method's originator, **not** an author of this paper. Figures 1 and 2 are captioned "(Harre 2018)" / "(modified from: Harre 2018)" in the source.

**Filename note.** Renamed from the truncated inbox filename `KONECT_Implementation_and_Extension_of_a_Method_fo.pdf` to a descriptive kebab-case name.

**Routing note.** Owned by remote-operations-kb: the paper is about interface/display design for remote operators monitoring safety-critical systems in control centres — directly the "control centre design / display systems" focus area, and a sibling to [[ecological-interface-design-fault-diagnosis-atc]]. The method itself is domain-general (also cars, air-taxis); human-centered-design-kb is a secondary home and may link rather than duplicate.

```bibtex
@incollection{saager2022konect,
  author    = {Saager, Marcel and Osterloh, Jan-Patrick and Br{\"u}ck, Yvonne},
  title     = {{KONECT}: Implementation and Extension of a Method for the Development of Safety-Critical Human-Machine Interaction Interfaces},
  booktitle = {Human Factors in Software and Systems Engineering},
  series    = {AHFE Open Access},
  volume    = {61},
  pages     = {1--8},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {AHFE International},
  doi       = {10.54941/ahfe1002515}
}
```

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