Komatsu
January 2009
Komatsu Forest manufactures harvesting machines and automatized logging software. Harvesters are their flagship product and they got in touch with the Umeå Institute of Design to improve the way operators use their software and controllers.
The learning curve of their machines takes their operators up to two years to learn how to use them fluently. Together we worked on a HUD to help improve the learning curve by projecting how the tree will fall and where the logs will be placed.
A representation of the forest is placed on a screen to represent what the user would see from the interior of the harvester.