FlyTact: A tactile display improves a helicopter pilot's landing performance in degraded visual environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5024 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 867-875

  Jansen, Chris ^a   Wennemers, Antoon ^a   Vos, Wouter ^a   Groen, Eric ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

helicopter control; tactile display

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; HELICOPTERS; LANDING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCURATE; DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; FLIGHT TRIALS; HELICOPTER CONTROL; HELICOPTER MOTIONS; MENTAL EFFORTS; ROTARY WINGS; ROYAL NETHERLANDS AIR FORCES; TACTILE DISPLAY; TACTILE DISPLAYS; TEST PILOTS; VISUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

EID: 54249123652     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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