Understanding Multisensory Integration for Pilot Spatial Orientation

Abstract

This report results from a contract tasking QinetiQ Ltd as follows: The Grantee will investigate the effects of synergistic and incongruent tactile and visual information on a representative flight task. The task will be related to maintaining correct spatial orientation and recovering from spatial disorientation. Subjects will be asked to perform a primary (flying) and secondary (non-flying) task with and without tactile orientation information to determine the advantages and disadvantages of using both tactile and visual orientation information. The specific questions that must be answered are: 1) What are the interactions between visual and tactile stimulation? 2) How does tactile information aid or detract from information presented in the other sensory modalities - specifically visual for this preliminary study? and 3) Can any performance enhancement be gained by combining multisensory information?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA429461

Entities

People

  • Alistair Furnell
  • Ian R. Moorhead
  • Sharon Holmes

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Contracts
  • Data Displays
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Instruments
  • Frequency
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).