A Comparison of Monocular, Biocular, and Binocular Night Vision Goggles for Traversing Off-Road Terrain on Foot.

Abstract

The performance of humans who traversed off-road terrain while wearing monocular, biocular, and binocular night vision goggles was examined. The difficulties that each of 35 male participants encountered while walking through rough terrain and wearing the three types of goggles were scored by independent observers. Participants themselves also rated several qualities of the goggles and ranked the goggles overall. In general, results indicated that the binocular goggle yielded better performance and was preferred to the other two goggles and that the biocular and the monocular goggles showed no consistent difference for any of the four sets of dependent measures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294018

Entities

People

  • Dawn E. Sipes
  • Edward Bender
  • John O. Merritt
  • V. G. Cuqlock-knopp
  • Warren Torgerson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Binoculars
  • Cognition
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Detection
  • Ground Level
  • Military Research
  • Night Vision
  • Observers
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Perception
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Situational Awareness
  • Standards
  • Target Detection
  • Visual Perception

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.
  • Robotics and Automation.