Attentional costs and failures in air traffic control notifications

Ergonomics

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1817-1832

  Imbert, Jean Paul ^a   Hodgetts, Helen M ^b,c   Parise, Robert ^d   Vachon, François ^b   Dehais, Frédéric ^e   Tremblay, Sébastien ^b  

^a ENAC   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Egis Avia   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

air traffic control; attentional capture; detection; eye movement; visual notifications

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AVIATION; CONTROL TOWERS; ERROR DETECTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYE TRACKING;

ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE; COGNITIVE COSTS; CONCENTRIC CIRCLES; HOLISTIC APPROACH; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERIPHERAL VISION; SUBJECTIVE MEASUREMENTS; VISUAL NOTIFICATIONS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ATTENTION; AVIATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCULOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; AVIATION; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911472340     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2014.952680     Document Type: Article

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