HUMAN ABILITY TO ESTIMATE TARGET LOCATIONS WITH RESPECT TO TWO POINTS.

Abstract

Two coordinate systems, polar and rectangular, were compared in an experiment in which undergraduate students estimated the coordinates of a target on an unstructured map showing the target point and two reference points. The reference points were oriented either conventionally (i.e., horizontally or vertically) or randomly. Both gross errors (e.g., wrong quadrant) and inaccuracies, exclusive of gross errors, were analyzed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0701389

Entities

People

  • Nilss M. Aume

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems
  • Quadrants

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Regression Analysis.