Cough once for danger: Icons versus abstract warnings as informative alerts in civil aviation

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1061-1071

  Perry, Nathan C ^a   Stevens, Catherine J ^a   Wiggins, Mark W ^a   Howell, Clare E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HUMAN REACTION TIME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

AUDITORY ICONS; COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING; WARNING RECOGNITION SPEED; WARNING SIGNALS;

CIVIL AVIATION;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; TRAINING;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH;

EID: 36749093378     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X249929     Document Type: Article

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