INTEGRATING HUMAN FACTORS INTO THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE: HOW BEST TO DISPLAY METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION FOR CRITICAL AVIATION DECISION-MAKING AND PERFORMANCE
Technological innovations like the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have had a significant impact on the real-time weather information and forecasting of meteorological variables necessary for hazardous weather avoidance. New predictive algorithms based on GOES data are now available for fog, icing, turbulence and microbursts. A survey of pilots showed that it was essential for a predictive product to have a high degree of accuracy. Microburst forecast products generated from GOES data indicated that microbursts occurred 88% of the time they were forecast and none occurred when not predicted, meeting this high standard of predictive certainty. Advance information on this hazard has been shown to influence the decision-making flight behavior of pilots. This paper examines how to present microburst prediction product to an aircrew. A color-coded display has been developed of microburst potential. The display was designed to meet critical human factors design criteria, including user preferences, biases and usability.
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Corporate Authors:
Aviation Institute
University of Nebraska, 60th and Dodge Streets
Omaha, NE United States 68182-0508 -
Authors:
- Witiw, M R
- Lanier, R C
- Cook, C
- Crooks, K A
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 129-138
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Serial:
- Journal of Air Transportation
- Volume: 8
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Aviation Institute
- ISSN: 1544-6980
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accuracy; Decision making; Design; Flight crews; Human factors; Meteorology; Microbursts; Real time information; Technological innovations; User interfaces (Computer science); Visual display units; Weather conditions; Weather forecasting
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Geotechnology; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00964733
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 24 2003 12:00AM