Keeping north in mind: How navigators reason about cardinal directions

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 148-151

  Gugerty, Leo ^a   DeBoom, Daniel ^b   Jenkins, Joseph C ^a   Morley, Rebecca ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACS Government Solutions Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CAMERAS; DECISION MAKING; ERGONOMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; NAVIGATION; RESEARCH; ROTATION;

CARDINAL DIRECTIONS; JUDGEMENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 1842789157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120004400139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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