Designing a glanceable peripheral display for severity-based multiple alarm notification

We report on a work in progress aimed at designing an innovative alarm notification component for telecommunication management systems. The design is based on a peripheral display that notifies faults with different levels of severity. The system is responsible for determining the alarm severity and for visualizing its description with an appropriate level of details by using visual coding techniques and interruption mechanisms consistent with the urgency degree of the notification: low severity alarms are associated with few data conveyed in a subliminal way, whereas more urgent alarms are associated with notifications requiring focal attention and technical intervention.