Ecological interface design for solar car strategy: From state equations to visual relations.

Renewable energy technologies present a distinct set of challenges for human problem solving and decision making. Solar car racing typifies opportunities for human factors engineering to support human performance in renewable energy domains, for example through computer interface design. Derivational and topographical adequacy are introduced as useful considerations to guide development of representation-aided interfaces and system instrumentation requirements. Implications for generalizability to emerging renewable energy applications are discussed.