@article{ref1,
title="Effects of the space shuttle cockpit avionics upgrade on crewmember performance and situation awareness",
journal="Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society annual meeting",
year="2005",
author="Hayashi, Miwa and Huemer, Valerie A. and Renema, Fritz and Elkins, Steve and McCandless, Jeffrey W. and McCann, Robert S.",
volume="49",
number="1",
pages="54-58",
abstract="The Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU) is a proposed cockpit display upgrade designed to address human-factors usability issues of the current suite of cockpit displays, Multifunction Electronic Display System (MEDS). Unlike MEDS, CAU consolidates information in a task-oriented manner, rather than a data-source-oriented manner. CAU also makes greater use of color coding and graphical depictions in systems status presentations. An ascent-phase operation simulation study showed that CAU formats significantly improved the participants' abort-related situation awareness. Participants also performed certain malfunction management procedures more accurately when CAU was used. The Space Shuttles are now scheduled to be retired by 2010 without incorporating CAU; however, the results of the present study suggest that the human-centered design concepts are effective and can be extended to the cockpit interface design of NASA's next generation Crew Exploration Vehicle.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2169-5067",
doi="10.1177/154193120504900113",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120504900113"
}