Display Compellingness: A Literature Review

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• Creators:
  Wickens, Christopher D. ; Yeh, Michelle
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute ; Cherokee, CRC
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Attention Aviation Avionics Compellingness Electronic FlightBag (EFB) Eye Movements Eye Tracking Literature Reviews Low Visibility Ownship Taxi

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• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FAA/AM-19/13
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• 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.
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• Collection(s):
  FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
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  urn:sha256:d81ca895ef1e87a6d74a18fc3e09676edbd02b067e773e6b65fe59275de25339
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