Application of Virtual Reality in Evaluation and Optimization for Human Machine Interface

Functional simulation based evaluation plays a very important role in human machine interface (HMI) evaluation. Virtual OM system is newly emerged as effective tool for realizing the interaction process of HMI. In this paper, a 3D virtual environment, dynamic operating and monitoring (OM) modules of HMI of main control room are set up by using GL Studio software. Subjective evaluation models and the evaluation indexes of operating and monitoring interface were proposed. In this study, grey clustering method was used for evaluating the designed virtual HMI. The virtual functional simulation HMI system and the subjective evaluation module are integrated into GL studio software. By this way, a virtual functional simulation HMI evaluation and optimizing system has been realized.