Head-mounted displays for civil helicopter navigation and obstacle avoidance: Is what you see what you don't get, or is seeing not believing?

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6-10

  Beringer, Dennis B ^a   Drechsler, Gena ^a  

^a Civil Aerospace Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL HELICOPTERS; COCKPIT SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; POWER LINES;

COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT); COLLISION AVOIDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; GRAPH THEORY; HELICOPTERS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 84889849698     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1541931213571004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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