Head-up auditory displays for traffic collision avoidance system advisories: a preliminary investigation.
The advantage of a head-up auditory display was evaluated in a preliminary experiment designed to measure and compare the acquisition time for capturing visual targets under two auditory conditions: standard one-earpiece presentation and two-earpiece three-dimensional (3D) audio presentation. Twelve commercial airline crews were tested under full mission simulation conditions at the NASA-Ames Man-Vehicle Systems Research Facility advanced concepts flight simulator. Scenario software generated visual targets corresponding to aircraft that would activate a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) aural advisory; the spatial auditory position was linked to the visual position with 3D audio presentation. Results showed that crew members using a 3D auditory display acquired targets approximately 2.2 s faster than did crew members who used one-earpiece headsets, but there was no significant difference in the number of targets acquired.
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San Jose State University Foundation, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035-1000.
D000060:Accidents, Aviation / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000401:Aircraft; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016288:Computer Terminals; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D006801:Humans; D013017:Sound Localization; D013026:Space Flight; D014796:Visual Perception