Evaluation of a motion fidelity criterion with visual scene changes

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 580-587

  Schroeder, Jeffery A ^a,d,f   Chung, William W Y ^b,e,f   Hess, Ronald A ^c,e,f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Logicon Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Army/NASA Rotorcraft Division   (United States)

^e M/S 243 6 ^*

^f AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERGONOMICS; HELICOPTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALTITUDE CHANGES; MOTION FIDELITY CRITERION; MOTION FILTER GAIN; PILOTS; PLATFORM MOTION VARIATIONS; VISUAL SCENE CHANGES; VISUAL SCENE SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034214833     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2669     Document Type: Article

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