BENEFITS OF COLOR CODING WEAPONS SYMBOLOGY FOR AN AIRBORNE HELMET-MOUNTED DISPLAY

This study assessed the advantages of a color-coded weapons symbology for a helmet-mounted display (HMD) over monochrome symbology by measuring military pilots' performance while they flew air-to-air combat in a simulator. Twelve volunteer military pilots from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden participated. Ten pilots had experience with head-up displays, four had in-flight HMD experience, and nine had air-to-air missile launch experience. The pilots fired missiles significantly sooner without sacrificing probability of kill when using the color-coded symbology, demonstrating a substantial practical benefit of color. Actual or potential applications of this work include the design of color codes for helmet-mounted and other displays that use complex symbology to assist performance on cognitively challenging tasks.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

  P.O. Box 1369
  Santa Monica, CA  United States  90406-1369
• Authors:
  • Post, D L
  • Geiselman, E E
  • Goodyear, C D
• Publication Date: 1999-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 515-523
• Serial:
  • Human Factors
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0018-7208
  • EISSN: 1547-8181
  • Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Cognition; Color; Head up displays; Helmets; Human factors engineering; Instrument displays; Symbols; Weapons
• Geographic Terms: Sweden; United Kingdom; United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790746
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: NSF II597-33100 CAR, 96-G-043, DAAL0196-2-0003
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 27 2000 12:00AM