A system for customizing indicator information for displaying status information to a user includes a receiver for receiving status information from each of a plurality of devices, and assigning the status information to one of a plurality of classes to generate class information. Each of the plurality of classes is associated with a different characteristic of the plurality of devices. The system includes a plurality of manipulators for altering attributes of the class information for at least one of the plurality of classes. The system includes a logical combiner for combining class information into a plurality of combinational groups to customize the content of indicator information in each of the plurality of combinational groups, each combinational group formed according to a predetermined function. The system can include an information sequencer for modifying the order of indicator information from the plurality of combinational groups to generate a stream of indicator information.