Towards Determination of Visual Requirements for Augmented Reality Displays and Virtual Environments for the Airport Tower

Abstract

The visual requirements for augmented reality or virtual environments displays that might be used in real or virtual towers are reviewed with respect to similar displays already used in aircraft. As an example of the type of human performance studies needed to determine the useful specifications of augmented reality displays, an optical see-through display was used in an ATC Tower simulation. Three different binocular fields of view (14 , 28 , and 47 ) were examined to determine their effect on subjects ability to detect aircraft maneuvering and landing. The results suggest that binocular fields of view much greater than 47 are unlikely to dramatically improve search performance and that partial binocular overlap is a feasible display technique for augmented reality Tower applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA473306

Entities

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Aircraft Detection
  • Aircrafts
  • Augmented Reality
  • Binoculars
  • Computer Graphics
  • Data Displays
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Military Applications
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Specifications
  • Traffic
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.