Designing user-interfaces for the cockpit: Five common design errors and how to avoid them

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Sherry, Lance ^a   Polson, Peter ^b   Feary, Michael ^b  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION;

ACTION SEQUENCES; AUTOMATION DESIGN; DESIGN ERRORS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85072457666     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2002-01-2968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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