NTL Record

Title Display Compellingness: A Literature Review
Record ID 81880
Personal Name
Creator
Wickens, Christopher D.; Yeh, Michelle
Corporate Creator United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute; Cherokee, CRC
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Publication Date 20180901
Language English
Abstract Avionics, such as synthetic vision systems, head-up displays, and electronic flight bags, have been described as being "compelling" but such a description is not quantifiable, compellingness is a property of the display, that attracts attention (a cognitive behavior), at the expense of attention allocated to other tasks and to other displays, for a long duration of time. Compellingness can be beneficial; e.g., when attention is drawn to information when that information is time-critical (e.g., compelling alerts) or when information is presented in such a way that it reduces the "cost"; of accessing or integrating that information. However, compellingness may also have negative impacts, and such prolonged attention has been referred to attentional tunneling (to the physical world) or cognitive tunneling (to a single task relative to the array of tasks confronting the pilot). The purpose of this paper was to try to establish a link between the physical features of display compellingness and the manifestations of cognitive/attentional tunneling to identify features that lead to compellingness and gather metrics to define it.
Rosap ID dot:56991
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56991
TRT Terms Attention; Eye movements; Avionics; Literature reviews; Aviation
General Subjects Compellingness; Ownship; Electronic FlightBag (EFB); Eye tracking; Low visibility; Taxi
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1735874
Report Number DOT/FAA/AM-19/13
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/81000/81800/81880/201913.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository