HUMAN ENGINEERING FOR AN EFFECTIVE AIR-NAVIGATION AND TRAFFIC-CONTROL SYSTEM, AND APPENDIXES 1 THRU 3

Paul M. Fitts, Morris S. Viteles, Norman Lee Barr, Dean R. Brimhall, Glen Finch, Eric E. Gardner, Walter F. Grether, WILBUR E. KELLUM, SARAH STEVENS

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1951 · 179 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

(1)The Nature of Human-Engineering Research. (2)The Air-Traffic Control Problem. (3)Some Basic Questions in Designing an Air-Navigation and Traffic-Control System. (4)A General Approach to the Human Operator as Part of a Communication Systems. (5)Visual Information Displays. (6)Problems of Direct Vision from Aircraft. (7)Voice Communication. (8)System Research, Analysis, and Evaluation. (9)Putting Human-Engineering Data to Use. (App. 1)The Present System of Air-Traffic Control. (App. 2) A Survey of the Opinions of Sixty Air Traffic Control Towers. (App. 3)The Criterion Problem.