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P‐28: Investigating the Usability of Touchscreen Interfaces in a Turbulent Flight Deck – For Panning and Numeric Data Entry Tasks
Author(s) -
Smith Mark A.,
Plant Katherine L.,
Parnell Katie J.,
Wynne Rachael A.,
Stanton Neville A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.14158
Subject(s) - touchscreen , usability , cockpit , human–computer interaction , panning (audio) , interface (matter) , computer science , user interface , simulation , engineering , aerospace engineering , operating system , zoom , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , petroleum engineering , lens (geology)
This paper studies the use of touchscreen displays on the flight deck, focusing on the usability of touch interfaces to complete panning and numeric entry tasks. Results from this study show that the usability of a drag gesture to meet a pan function, surpasses the performance of a simple tapping interface under all turbulent conditions tested. Also, that this drag interface is more useable in an inter‐seat flight deck position, than a central one. It was also found that touchscreen interfaces can surpass the performance of the traditional mechanical dial interface for numeric data entry tasks, under all turbulent conditions tested.