Application of avatars in display design to support spatial awareness in extreme flight situations

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCauley, Michael E.
dc.contributor.authorWeber, Axel
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Science
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research
dc.contributor.secondreaderPaulo, Eugene P.
dc.dateMar-06
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-03T23:26:23Z
dc.date.available2016-03-03T23:26:23Z
dc.date.issued2006-03
dc.description.abstractHuman performance in spatial orientation tasks is mainly determined by spatial awareness and the skills to transition from the current spatial attitude into the desired spatial orientation and position. Erroneous spatial awareness may lead to degraded task performance, loss of equipment, serious injuries, or fatal aviation mishaps. This study investigated human orientation performance in relation to display designs that support mental models of the user’s spatial situation. The goal of this study was to develop, design, implement, and test a prototype of an instrument to support operators in extreme flight tasks by a pictorial avatar design. Two experiments have been conducted during this study to investigate how the proposed design affects operators’ orientation performance and to prove the design concept. The most important results can be summarized as follows: 1. The proposed pictorial avatar design significantly reduced the time to assess the spatial situation. 2. Performance, in terms of recovery time and precision, is significantly improved by the proposed design compared to traditional flight instrumentation. 3. The proposed design was intuitively accepted, interpreted, and used to solve 3D-orientation tasks efficiently. 4. The proposed design reduced greatly extreme misjudgments of the own spatial orientationen_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.description.serviceMajor, German Armyen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/applicationofvat1094548116
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/48116
dc.publisherMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.rightsCopyright is reserved by the copyright owner.en_US
dc.subject.authorspatial awarenessen_US
dc.subject.authorsituation awarenessen_US
dc.subject.authorflight instrument designen_US
dc.subject.authorcockpit designen_US
dc.subject.authorhuman factors designen_US
dc.subject.authorhuman machine interfaceen_US
dc.subject.authorhuman systems integrationen_US
dc.subject.authorvirtual avataren_US
dc.subject.authorpictorial designen_US
dc.subject.authorspatial disorientationen_US
dc.subject.authorcockpit instrumentsen_US
dc.subject.authorflight safetyen_US
dc.subject.authoraviation safetyen_US
dc.titleApplication of avatars in display design to support spatial awareness in extreme flight situationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineModeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute (MOVES)en_US
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineHuman Systems Integrationen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulationen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Human Systems integrationen_US
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