Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations
Many interactional issues with Flight Management Systems (FMS) in modern flight decks have been reported. Avionics designers are seeking for ways to reduce cognitive load of pilots with the aim to reduce the potential for human error. Academic research showed that touch screen interfaces reduce cogn...
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| author | Avsar, Huseyin Fischer, Joel E. Rodden, Tom |
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| description | Many interactional issues with Flight Management Systems (FMS) in modern flight decks have been reported. Avionics designers are seeking for ways to reduce cognitive load of pilots with the aim to reduce the potential for human error. Academic research showed that touch screen interfaces reduce cognitive effort and provide an intuitive way of interaction. A new way of interaction to manipulate radio frequencies of avionics systems is presented in this paper. A usability experiment simulating departures and approaches to airports was used to evaluate the interface and compare it with the current system (FMS). In addition, interviews with pilots were conducted to find out their personal impressions and to reveal problem areas of the interface. Analyses of task completion time and error rates showed that the touch interface is significantly faster and less prone to user input errors than the conventional input method (via physical or virtual keypad). Potential problem areas were identified and an improved interface is suggested. |
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| spelling | nottingham-374012020-05-04T18:09:46Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37401/ Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations Avsar, Huseyin Fischer, Joel E. Rodden, Tom Many interactional issues with Flight Management Systems (FMS) in modern flight decks have been reported. Avionics designers are seeking for ways to reduce cognitive load of pilots with the aim to reduce the potential for human error. Academic research showed that touch screen interfaces reduce cognitive effort and provide an intuitive way of interaction. A new way of interaction to manipulate radio frequencies of avionics systems is presented in this paper. A usability experiment simulating departures and approaches to airports was used to evaluate the interface and compare it with the current system (FMS). In addition, interviews with pilots were conducted to find out their personal impressions and to reveal problem areas of the interface. Analyses of task completion time and error rates showed that the touch interface is significantly faster and less prone to user input errors than the conventional input method (via physical or virtual keypad). Potential problem areas were identified and an improved interface is suggested. 2016-09-25 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Avsar, Huseyin, Fischer, Joel E. and Rodden, Tom (2016) Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations. In: IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 25-29 Sept 2016, Sacramento, USA. Flight deck design Avionics Touch screen User interface Usability test Input device Comparative study http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7777976/ |
| spellingShingle | Flight deck design Avionics Touch screen User interface Usability test Input device Comparative study Avsar, Huseyin Fischer, Joel E. Rodden, Tom Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title | Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title_full | Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title_fullStr | Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title_short | Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| title_sort | designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations |
| topic | Flight deck design Avionics Touch screen User interface Usability test Input device Comparative study |
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