Project Title:
Improving Access and Use of Graphical Information in Commercial Air Transport
03.09-1457
911903
Improving Access and Use of Graphical Information in Commercial Air Transport
Search Technology, Inc.
4725 Peachtree Corners Circle Suite 200
Norcross
GA
30092
Paul R.
Frey
404-441-1457
LaRC
NAS1-19545
039
03.09-1457
911903
Abstract:
Improving Access and Use of Graphical Information in Commercial Air Transport
This project addresses an effort to improve the accessibility and use of computer-based
graphical information in the cockpits of commercial transport aircraft. This improvement
derives from the use of principled approaches in both the presentation design and
the ease of access of the graphical information. Two unique and innovative aspects
are the application of recent research results on the use of an information "abstraction-aggregation
space" to the design of computer-based graphics, and the transfer of recent research
and development experience on military fighter aircraft information management to
management of graphical information in commercial air transport. The results of this
effort hold promise for directing and managing the anticipated expansion of computer-based
graphical information in the cockpit.
Information management systems have wide commercial application in civil air transport
as well as in many other industries. In the near term, the most likely commercial
application of this project is the development of electronic library systems (ELS)
for new commercial transport aircraft. It may prove useful in ELS retrofits as well.
information management, graphical information, commercial air transport, electronic
library system