Analysis and Design of Keyboards for the AH-64D Helicopter

Abstract

The trend towards digital cockpit designs has created the need to provide data entry keyboards in the cockpit. Using data representative of text entries used by pilots flying the All-64 Apache helicopter, a quantitative model was developed of how long it would take to enter this kind of text with the current keyboard used by the pilots. The model was used to create an alternative optimized keyboard that arranges the layout of letters in a way that should allow (according to the model) much faster entry of the text. An experiment demonstrated an advantage for the optimized design over the original design of an approximate 31% improvement in data entry time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA437531

Entities

People

  • Clarence E. Rash
  • Gregory Francis

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Helicopters
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Helicopters
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Keyboards
  • Learning
  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Physical Properties
  • Psychology
  • Text Messaging
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Library and Information Science