Multidimensional measure of display clutter and pilot performance for advanced head-up display

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1013-1022

  Kim, Sang Hwan ^a   Prinzel, Lawrence J ^b   Kaber, David B ^c   Alexander, Amy L ^d   Stelzer, Emily M ^e   Kaufmann, Karl ^c   Veil, Theo ^e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Display clutter; Flight simulation; Head up displays; Intelligent flight deck technologies; Pilot performance.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AVIATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 81555200753     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3017.2011     Document Type: Article

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