Comparing Text and Graphics in Navigation Display Design

Abstract

Thirty-six pilots were tested in a flight simulator on their ability to decide which of two airports was farther from a storm front, based on the manner in which information was presented on a navigational display. The results support the superiority of graphical over textual information display of nearest airport information. Pilots were significantly faster using the map display than using either the text-only display or the enhanced- text display. In addition, in contrast to an earlier study (Williams, 1999), pilots performed better using a north-up map than when using a track-up map. Discussion of the results focuses on recommendations for moving-map displays and the display requirements for support of the nearest-airport function within a navigational display.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA375445

Entities

People

  • Kevin W. Williams

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Cognition
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Educational Psychology
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Graphics
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Navigation
  • Psychology
  • Simulators
  • Statistical Analysis

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  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).