A Worked Example of Job Simulation Using Micro SAINT
Abstract
A great deal of interest in aviation human factors in concerned with the cognitive, sensory and physical workload experienced by aircrew. This interest is partly due to recent changes in aircraft systems and cockpit display technology in which single purpose instruments are being replaced by multifunction and dedicated electronic displays that present integrated and (supposedly) simplified graphical information (Hart, 1988). With the rapid extension of aircraft system capability due to advanced technologies, it is important that aircrew can fully utilize the functions provided. Inability to do so because of excessive workload demands will limit the operational performance of the aircraft. SAINT was developed at the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory of the USAF for use in human factors studies with P-GERT networks and Siegal and Wolf man-machine models (Chubb, 1981). SAINT is run on a mainframe computer and requires some familiarity with Fortran programming (Laughery and Drews, 1985). Micro SAINT was developed for IBM personal computers in order to overcome some of the cumbersome language problems encountered with SAINT.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA221479
Entities
People
- C. M. Ford
- J. G. Manton
- P. K. Hughes