The GUI provides a drawing space where network diagrams defining man and machine tasks are constructed using visual components. Network element sequence is defined by connecting model components with mouse point, click, and drag operations. Micro Saint supports several types of human decision models and queues to allow the representation of the most complex of operations. The HOS extensions provide a mechanism to define a work space associated with a task network. This work space can contain work zones or work surfaces, operators, and positional markers.
Work zones can also contain work surfaces, operators, and positional markers.
Work surfaces can contain work controls with which the operator would interact. Built-in micro models of human behavior can be related to the operator and the control and used to dynamically modify the time to perform a task based on operator position. Micro models are functions that represent basic human actions. Dynamic micro models, such as reaching rate, relate an operator in a work space or zone and a control on a work surface. Times are calculated and used during the simulation based on operator to control distance and the size of the control.