Högskolan i Skövde

The focus of information fusion has traditionally been on the technical aspects e.g. algorithms. However, the importance of also understanding human information processing is gaining increasing recognition. The research outlined here aims to incorporate and widen the perspective of HCI in information fusion and decision support research i.e. the utilisation of the user as an active component in the information fusion process. A new perspective of the information fusion process is proposed and distributed cognition is identified as a theoretical framework capturing the process. Also, initial results indicate that trust, uncertainty and temporal aspects are issues affecting the interaction between the user and the information fusion system. © BCS HCI Group Conference: Engage, HCI 2006.All right reserved.