Comparing Design Options for Allocating Communication Media in Cooperative Safety-Critical Contexts: A Method and a Case Study

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 370-398

  Fields, Robert ^a   Paternò, Fabio ^b   Santoro, Carmen ^b   Tahmassebi, Sophie ^c  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CENA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Design; Human Factors; Reliability; tasks; usability and safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650270053     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/331490.331492     Document Type: Article

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