Dual-task performance consequences of imperfect alerting associated with a cockpit display of traffic information

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 839-850

  Wickens, Christopher ^a,b   Colcombe, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Micro Analysis & Design Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; ALARM SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT; STUDENTS;

COCKPIT DISPLAYS OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION (CDTI); IMPERFECT ALERT; PILOT COMPLIANCE;

COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT);

ACCURACY; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALARM MONITORING; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FLIGHT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34548813351     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X230217     Document Type: Article

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