Keyboard and Message Evaluation for Cockpit Input Data Link

Abstract

The project studied some methods for implementation of the man- machine interface of Digital Data Link for Air Traffic Control. An analysis of information transfer requirements indicated that a vocabulary of less than 200 words could yield meaningful messages for all routine ATC transactions. Keyboard configurations suitable for one-handed operation to yield alphanumeric outputs were studied and a ten-key character selection layout based upon sequential keying of the first two letters of the phonetic alphabet was developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0744721

Entities

People

  • E. H. Hilborn

Organizations

  • John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic Control Systems
  • Aircrafts
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Coding
  • Commercial Pilots
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Data Links
  • Digital Data
  • Frequency
  • Pilots
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Transportation
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.