MONICA vision: An approach, a model and the interactive tools for cyber-physical systems designers

Nowadays, the growing diffusion of Cyber-Physical Systems brings strict requirements for the cyber-side, managed with complex HW/SW systems. In this paper, we discuss an action research experience to contribute to recent interest from the HCI community in frontier topics, at the intersection with Cyber-Physical Systems. HW/SW designers, experts in their application domain, are often not supported in their specific and daily tasks, as for example those associated to the design of cyber-side HW/SW components of Cyber-Physical Systems. This paper is an invitation to the HCI community to look at HW/SW designers as frontier users to serve. Indeed, the paper mainly describes the design issues raised within the European FitOptiVis project - aiming at developing a framework to support the design of video-based Cyber-Physical Systems - within which the action research experience has been conducted with the goal of supporting designers in the design of some crucial HW/SW components of the cyber-side: the monitoring systems.