Touch on the Flight Deck - Older Pilots Want to Learn New Tricks

摘要

Touch screens are useful in "glass-cockpit" applications because they provide a means of direct interaction with a dynamic graphical display. Users can interact with dynamic information including weather and radar and engine data, using a flexible user interface. Important flight data such as airspeed and altitude can be represented using digital displays in more space-efficient and intuitive ways compared to analogue displays (Barbe, Mollard & Wolff, 2014). Touch screens specifically are useful in these applications, with the added advantage that pilots can interact with and manipulate data. Previous studies have shown that touch screens are faster to use than alternative input methods, including keyboard/mouse setups (Stanton, Harvey, Plant & Bolton, 2013).