AEGIS Status-Display Formats: Tradeoff Studies

Abstract

An experiment was designed to collect human performance data on current and experimental status display formats for a Navy Workstation (i.e., Aegis Combat System). Current information display methods do not take advantage of human processing capabilities of using graphics (e.g., icons, bar-graphs, or color) and integrating the information on the display to fit the operator's task. The focus of the experiment was to provide human performance data to support the trade-off analyses of display formats and to investigate the feasibility of applying these techniques to future control/display upgrades. Eleven subjects (6 Navy personnel with Aegis combat system experience and 5 Navy researchers) viewed different display formats of the Guided Missile Launcher System Character Read-out (CRO). The subjects answered 16 questions about system status on each of the display layouts. The experiment compared operator accuracy and response times when reading information across the displays. We found that operator performance may differ as a function of layout of information on a CRO and the cognitive processes required to execute the task. Other design improvements for future studies will be discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA236969

Entities

People

  • James W. Broyle

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Cognition
  • Combat Information Centers
  • Data Displays
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Graphics
  • Guided Missile Launchers
  • Guided Missiles
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Motor Skills
  • Navy
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Software Prototyping
  • Surface Warfare
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.