Spatial awareness in synthetic vision systems: Using spatial and temporal judgments to evaluate texture and field of view

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 961-974

  Bolton, Matthew L ^a   Bass, Ellen J ^a,c   Comstock Jr , James Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT); TEXTURES;

PHOTO FISHNET (PF); SYNTHETIC VISION SYSTEM (SVS);

COMPUTER VISION;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; SIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AVIATION; AWARENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 36749089995     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X249848     Document Type: Article

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