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Compatibility and Consistency in Display-Control Systems: Implications for Aircraft Decision Aid Design
- Source :
- Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 34:639-653
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1992.
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Abstract
- In this study we contrast display-control movement relations defined in terms of stimulus-response (physical) compatibility with those defined by stimulus-cognitive compatibility, and we relate these findings to the issue of command versus status levels of decision aid support. A second issue addressed is the cost of inconsistency across multiple display-control mappings. Subjects performed a flight control task while responding to one to four analog indicators, formatted as either command or status displays. The results suggest that there is an advantage for the status format when subjects are required to verbally report the state of the indicator(s), but no advantage was found for either format when subjects were required to manually correct the indicated state. The data point to the importance of display-control consistency and suggest that it may even outweigh that of compatibility.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Operations research
business.industry
Decision theory
05 social sciences
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Cognition
050105 experimental psychology
Display device
Behavioral Neuroscience
Human–computer interaction
Control system
Information display systems
Compatibility (mechanics)
Command and control
Systems design
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
business
050107 human factors
Applied Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15478181 and 00187208
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........15d1e37f821b35f058e1f7a46c1f25bd