TY - GEN
T1 - Interfaces for dismounted soldiers
T2 - 59th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2015
AU - Oron-Gilad, Tal
AU - Parmet, Yisrael
AU - Benor, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - In military operations, most of the communication is handled by audio and visual devices. Less common is the use of tactile interfaces. Experiments in the dome simulator provide a controlled way to examine soldiers' display devices within their context of use. Participants are immersed in a virtual hostile environment and utilize a display device conveying video feed from unmanned systems and alerts while having also to attend to their immediate environment. This type of situation allows examining higher workloads and task demands and it is in such conditions that it was hypothesized that the addition of tactile alerts will be beneficial. Results of an experiment conducted on 22 reserve soldier participants reveal that there are advantages to the use of the combined visual+tactile alert interface. However, they also raise concerns as to the ability of soldiers to attend to a display device and to their immediate environment at the same time and call for further research on the utilization of tactile alerts.
AB - In military operations, most of the communication is handled by audio and visual devices. Less common is the use of tactile interfaces. Experiments in the dome simulator provide a controlled way to examine soldiers' display devices within their context of use. Participants are immersed in a virtual hostile environment and utilize a display device conveying video feed from unmanned systems and alerts while having also to attend to their immediate environment. This type of situation allows examining higher workloads and task demands and it is in such conditions that it was hypothesized that the addition of tactile alerts will be beneficial. Results of an experiment conducted on 22 reserve soldier participants reveal that there are advantages to the use of the combined visual+tactile alert interface. However, they also raise concerns as to the ability of soldiers to attend to a display device and to their immediate environment at the same time and call for further research on the utilization of tactile alerts.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981719021&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1541931215591030
DO - 10.1177/1541931215591030
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84981719021
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 145
EP - 149
BT - 2015 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2015
PB - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Inc.
Y2 - 26 October 2015 through 30 October 2015
ER -