TERMINAL GUIDANCE SIMULATOR STUDY PROGRAM TEST. REPEATED EXPOSURE OF OPERATORS TO SELECTED TARGET AREAS
Abstract
The work described in this report was designed to explore the relationship between repeated operator experience with a terminal guidance simulator and the operator's ability to acquire a target within sixty seconds. The test material consisted of ten photographic transparencies featuring targets of different degrees of difficulty. Each subject worked each transparency eight times, beginning at a different initial point each time. Four specific conclusions were drawn as a result of analyzing the data: (1) There is a learning effect associated with 8 repeated exposures to the same transparency; however, the difference is significant at less than the 5% level; (2) There is a learning effect associated with the increase in the amount of experience of the subjects. This is a learning effect from one test session to another and is significant at better than the 1% level; (3) There does not appear to be a learning effect associated with the interaction of runs and trials. There does not appear to be a difference in the amount of learning during a test session which is a function of the experience level of the subject; and (4) The differences which were noted in the performance of the subjects during the experiment were related to the amount of experience of the subjects and to the relative difficulty of the transparencies. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0347509
Entities
People
- E. Myers
- H. J. Coleman