HUMAN ENGINEERING FOR AN EFFECTIVE AIR-NAVIGATION AND TRAFFIC-CONTROL SYSTEM, AND APPENDIXES 1 THRU 3

Abstract

(1)The Nature of Human-Engineering Research. (2)The Air-Traffic Control Problem. (3)Some Basic Questions in Designing an Air-Navigation and Traffic-Control System. (4)A General Approach to the Human Operator as Part of a Communication Systems. (5)Visual Information Displays. (6)Problems of Direct Vision from Aircraft. (7)Voice Communication. (8)System Research, Analysis, and Evaluation. (9)Putting Human-Engineering Data to Use. (App. 1)The Present System of Air-Traffic Control. (App. 2) A Survey of the Opinions of Sixty Air Traffic Control Towers. (App. 3)The Criterion Problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 14, 1951
Accession Number
ADB815893

Entities

People

  • D. R. Brimhall
  • Eric Gardner
  • Glen Finch
  • M. S. Viteles
  • N. L. Barr
  • Paul M. Fitts
  • S. S. Stevens
  • W. E. Kellum
  • W. F. Grether

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic Control Systems
  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Science
  • Data Displays
  • Employment
  • Experimental Design
  • Flight Instruments
  • Flight Simulators
  • Geography
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Job Analysis
  • Network Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Systems Engineering
  • Voice Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering