Agent-oriented design of human-computer interface: application to supervision of an urban transport network

At the present time, the approaches found in the design of interactive systems use a modular structure, with the aim of achieving a better understanding of reactivity, flexibility, maintainability and reuse at the human-machine interface level. However, most architecture models are far more concerned with user-controlled applications and they do not consider the specificities of supervision applications in which the human operator acts as the controller and commander of an independent dynamic process. A multi-agent approach is a possible answer to this type of situation. The agent-oriented model put forward in this article is the subject of an application intended in the long term to supervise the user information system of an urban transport network.