Abstract
The objective of this study was to test the efficacy of a new traffic display compared to an existing display used for sports aviation in identifying aircraft in the outside surrounding. The study was conducted on 30 novices to test whether the visual and interactive properties of the new display is effective in detecting other aircraft. Two videos of flight simulation were generated using Microsoft Flight Simulator and presented on Tobii eye tracker. The participants had to indicate the three-dimensional position of the other aircraft based on the visual display. ANOVA was conducted with the viewing area (cockpit and sky) as within-subject variable and display (new and existing) as between subject variable. Findings suggest that the accuracy of the participants was marginally better with the new display compared to the existing one. This work can be helpful in designing low-cost devices for identifying aircraft in the outside surrounding.
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Abbreviations
- AOI:
-
Area of interest
- CAS:
-
Collision alerting system
- FLARM:
-
A low-cost flight alarm system
- GAFTD:
-
General aviation flight training device
- HMI:
-
Human–machine interface
- ICAO:
-
International Civil Aviation Organization
- IFR:
-
Instrument flight rules
- IVT:
-
In-vehicle technologies
- MAC:
-
Mid-air collision
- OTW:
-
Out-of-the-window
- TFD:
-
Total fixation duration
- VFR:
-
Visual flight rules
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Karmakar, A., Bhushan, B., Santel, C., Sameer, A., Bhattacharya, B. (2019). Interface Design of Low-Cost Collision Alerting System for Sports Aviation. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Research into Design for a Connected World. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 135. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_34
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