Tactile cueing effects on performance in simulated aerial combat with high acceleration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1128-1134

  Van Erp, Jan B F ^a   Eriksson, Lars ^b   Levin, Britta ^b   Carlander, Otto ^b   Veltman, J A ^a   Vos, Wouter K ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cockpit displays; Human performance; Multi sensory; Tactile display; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKLOAD;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AVIATION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DATA DISPLAY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36749014469     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2133.2007     Document Type: Article

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