DISPLAY EFFECTS ON SHAPING APPARENT STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY IN COLLISION DETECTION AVOIDANCE

This paper examines participants' behavior at collision detection and avoidance during parallel approaches and tests how it is affected by additional information on traffic displays. Participant behavior is analyzed by looking for "apparent strategies," measured by characteristics of participants' actions that remain consistent across scenarios with strongly different dynamics. The participants' collision detection reactions are found to occur at aircraft lateral separations that are consistent across a variety of scenarios; likewise, collision avoidance maneuvers with a "turn-away" component are consistently chosen for all scenarios. Unfortunately, these apparent strategies do not have adequate performance. Although some statistically significant differences in measures of participant behavior were found between display conditions, they were not substantial enough to increase performance.

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  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Pritchett, A R
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 59-83
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Aviation Psychology
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1050-8414
  • EISSN: 1532-7108
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hiap20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Air transportation; Air transportation crashes; Aviation safety; Behavior; General aviation; Human factors; Instrument displays; Parallel runways
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00794604
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 27 2000 12:00AM