Effects of Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Navigation Cues on Navigation Performance, Situation Awareness, and Mental Workload

Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of navigation display modality on navigation performance, situation awareness, mental workload, and modality preference. Directional cues to a series of waypoints were provided visually, aurally, and tactilely in the within-subjects design. Each experiment was performed in a virtual environment by U.S. Army Soldiers, 14 in the first experiment, 18 in the second experiment. Results from both experiments indicate that augmented visual displays reduced time to complete navigation, maintained situation awareness, and drastically reduced mental workload in comparison to the other display modalities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA463244

Entities

People

  • Bradley M. Davis

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Audio Tones
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Computational Science
  • Environment
  • Experimental Design
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Navigation
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality
  • Workload

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

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