
USER-CENTRED DESIGN OF VIRTUAL TRAINING
FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES
Setia Hermawati & Glyn Lawson
Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering,
The University of Nottingham, UK
Operators on final assembly lines at automotive companies need to
receive sufficient training to enable them to switch effortlessly in
performing assembly operations on one model to the next. A virtual
training system, “VISTRA”, was designed to provide a supplemen-
tary approach for training to existing methods which rely on physical
prototypes. A user-centred design approach was adopted to realise
such system. Context of use and user requirements analysiswere con-
ducted; ...