Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
City
Dayton
Abstract
In a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project for NASA Langley, we developed and evaluated three formats of conceptual prototype cockpit wake vortex displays, a 2D plan view display, a 2D co-planar display, and a 3D synthetic vision system display. In each, the wake was presented along with conventional information on the 2D nav display, the vertical situation display, and the forward-looking SVS display. In the first stage of evaluation, three pilots carried out a two rounds of usability analyses on the displays in dynamic flight scenarios. The co-planar display was revealed to have the fewest problems. In the second stage, we evaluated the three displays, and some variants using a dynamic computational model of attention-situation awareness (A-SA), to reveal that the SVS display with wake information redundantly presented on a coplanar display yielded highest situation awareness and shortest noticing time for the appearance of the wake. The 2D nav display was poorest.
Repository Citation
Wickens, C. D.,
Sebok, A.,
Bagnall, T.,
& Kamienski, J.
(2007). Wake Vortex Display Design and Model Evaluation. 2007 International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 743-747.
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