Design of an Ergonomic Wearable Radiation Detector with an Intuitive User Interface

该项目将侧重于设计可穿戴式伽马辐射探测器的物理特性，包括用户界面。这些搜索仪器“介于”辐射寻呼机/剂量计和背包探测系统之间。这种新仪器将通过解决放射性寻呼机（灵敏度）和背包式探测系统（常规/隐蔽搜索的实用性和长期使用的重量）的局限性，加强常规和秘密搜查非法核材料的国际安全。可穿戴系统的关键设计考虑不仅是探测器的类型、数量和尺寸，而且是探测器模块的人体工程学设计以及如何适当地将信息传递给用户。辐射探测器产品需要使用简单，因为它们不经常使用和/或操作员接受的培训很少。在这个项目中，我们将采用以人为中心的设计方法，首次与用户和人为因素专家一起参与，为我们的早期设计选择提供信息。为了衡量这个项目的成功，我们将要求用户将这个项目的输出与一个现有的低成熟度项目的输出进行比较，该项目完全以技术设计为重点。

This project will focus on the design of the physical characteristics, including user interfaces, of a wearable gamma radiation detector. These search instruments fit “between” radiation pagers/dosimeters and backpack detection systems. This new instrument would enhance international security in routine and covert search for illicit nuclear materials by addressing the limitations of both radiological pagers (sensitivity) and backpack detector systems (practicality for routine/covert search and weight for long duration use). A key design consideration of a wearable system is not only the type, number and size of detectors but also the ergonomic design of the detector modules and how to appropriately relay the information to the user. Radiation detector products need to be simple to use as they are infrequently used and/or operators are given minimal training. In this project, we will take a human-centric design approach by, for the first time, engaging with both users and human factors experts to inform our early design choices. To measure the success of this project we will ask users to compare this projects outputs with the outputs of an existing low maturity project which had a wholly technical design focus.