Dual displays.
The study examined whether the simultaneous presentation of different map displays can aid situational awareness in spatial tasks relying on ego-centred and world-centred reference frames. Two commonly used aircraft displays, track-up and north-up maps, were compared with a dual aircraft display consisting of both track-up and north-up maps. Participants took part in two tasks: one relied on an ego-centred reference frame (ERF) and the other on a world-centred reference frame (WRF). The ERF task involved left/right judgements with respect to the aircraft's current heading while in the WRF task participants were asked to identify the compass heading associated with a landmark. A moderate amount of training resulted in a significant improvement with the dual maps in both the WRF task (relative to track-up maps) and the ERF task (relative to north-up maps). The findings are discussed with reference to how attention is allocated to visual displays.
Tlauka
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Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK. mt16@leicester.ac.uk
Stanton
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McKenna
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D003626:Data Display; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis