Relating Target Visibility Factors to Small-Arms Combat Effectiveness

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to determine how varying target- background contrast affects two common measures of military rifle marksmanship. Only one of the performance measures correlated significantly and in the expected direction with mean readings from a visibility meter. Two subsequent experiments were conducted to help determine the appropriateness of basing experimental control of target-background contrast on visibility-meter readings. Three difficulties in using the Blackwell Visual Tasks Evaluator (VTE) for this purpose were identified and analyzed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030093

Entities

People

  • John L. Miles Jr.
  • Ralph J. Kibler
  • Timothy W. Brauneck

Organizations

  • Human Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Ammunition
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Brightness
  • Combat Effectiveness
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Design
  • Field Tests
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Perception
  • Small Arms
  • Targets
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.