A Study of Learning in the Operations of a Viscous Damped Traversing Unit.

Abstract

Tracking studies concerned with the performance of a human operator attempting to track a point on a form of visual display have been conducted extensively. Few studies have been concerned with the learning of trackers in a field environment. The objectives of this study were to investigate learning of persons doing a tracking task and to find the measure of performance which most accurately describes learning. the apparatus to be used by the subject trackers and the data collection devices were of exacting manufacture. Experimental error was held to a minimum by careful controls. The results were that learning was noted in all trackers. Learning was accomplished in the first ten trials, after which performance plateaued. Standard deviation of error in the horizontal direction was the best measure of learning. Tracking error was affected by autocorrelation. Three subjects showed no significant difference in their standard deviations of error at the end of the experiment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA086175

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  • Geoffrey Alan Robinson

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  • Georgia Tech

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Cameras
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Displays
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Motion Picture Cameras
  • Normal Distribution
  • Operations Research
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Wire Guidance

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