Situation awareness implications of adaptive automation for information processing in an air traffic control-related task

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 447-462

  Kaber, David B ^a   Perry, Carlene M ^b   Segall, Noa ^b   McClernon, Christopher K ^c   Prinzel III, Lawrence J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive automation; Air traffic control; Situation awareness; Workload

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AUTOMATION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE AUTOMATION; SITUATION AWARENESS; SITUATION AWARENESS GLOBAL ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE (SAGAT); WORKLOAD;

DATA PROCESSING;

ADULT; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AVIATION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33646081793     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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