The impact of night vision goggles on way-finding performance and the acquisition of spatial knowledge

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 311-321

  Gauthier, Michelle Sylvia ^a,b   Parush, Avi ^a   Macuda, Todd ^a,c   Tang, Denis ^d   Craig, Gregory ^e   Jennings, Sion ^e  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CAE Professional Services   (Canada)

^c Gladstone Aerospace Consulting   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TARGET TRACKING; VISION;

NIGHT VISION GOGGLES (NVG); SPATIAL COGNITION;

GOGGLES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NIGHT VISION GOGGLE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECTACLES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYEGLASSES; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449092588     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X288295     Document Type: Article

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