Abstract
Alerting systems monitor potentially hazardous situations. If a hazard is projected to occur, the system alerts the operator and/or commands the operator to execute specific actions. However, operators have been observed not to conform to alerting system commands. This study hypothesized that the interaction between information presented on situation displays and automatic alerts can encourage or discourage conformance to alerts. As a test case, a flight simulator evaluation was conducted examining collision detection during closely spaced parallel approaches in conditions specifically manipulated to create consonance (where the display provided a clear explanation of the rationale behind automatic alerts) and dissonance (where the display inherently promoted a different basis for an alerting judgment). Results indicate that conditions with consonance and dissonance can have significant impact on participants' collision detection performance and on their agreement with automatic alerts.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 311-315 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society |
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| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting - Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN, United States Duration: Oct 8 2001 → Oct 12 2001 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Human Factors and Ergonomics