Using multisensory cues to facilitate air traffic management

Human Factors

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1093-1103

  Ngo, Mary K ^a   Pierce, Russell S ^b   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

air traffic control; attention; auditory cuing; multisensory cuing; multisensory facilitation; temporal cuing; vibrotactile cuing; visual target detection

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CUING; MULTISENSORY; TEMPORAL CUING; VIBROTACTILE;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVIATION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870955512     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720812446623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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