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Attentional models of multitask pilot performance using advanced display technology
- Source :
- Human factors. 45(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- In the first part of the reported research, 12 instrument-rated pilots flew a highfidelity simulation, in which air traffic control presentation of auditory (voice) information regarding traffic and flight parameters was compared with advanced display technology presentation of equivalent information regarding traffic (cockpit display of traffic information) and flight parameters (data link display). Redundant combinations were also examined while pilots flew the aircraft simulation, monitored for outside traffic, and read back communications messages. The data suggested a modest cost for visual presentation over auditory presentation, a cost mediated by head-down visual scanning, and no benefit for redundant presentation. The effects in Part 1 were modeled by multiple-resource and preemption models of divided attention. In the second part of the research, visual scanning in all conditions was fit by an expected value model of selective attention derived from a previous experiment. This model accounted for 94% of the variance in the scanning data and 90% of the variance in a second validation experiment. Actual or potential applications of this research include guidance on choosing the appropriate modality for presenting in-cockpit information and understanding task strategies induced by introducing new aviation technology.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Engineering
Technology
Poison control
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Flight simulator
Sensitivity and Specificity
050105 experimental psychology
Aviation safety
Behavioral Neuroscience
Data link
Information display systems
Task Performance and Analysis
Reaction Time
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
Flight training
Man-Machine Systems
050107 human factors
Applied Psychology
Simulation
Models, Statistical
business.industry
05 social sciences
Air traffic control
Middle Aged
Cockpit
Aerospace Medicine
Data Display
Visual Perception
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00187208
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Human factors
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....215f8fc3b11b5f90ca72b863e2d5164c