Print Email Facebook Twitter Effects of an Ecological Interface on Flight Training Effectiveness Title Effects of an Ecological Interface on Flight Training Effectiveness Author Deerenberg, Ronald (Student TU Delft) van Paassen, M.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Borst, C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Mulder, Max (TU Delft Control & Operations) Contributor Tsang, P.S. (editor) Vidulich, M.A. (editor) Department Control & Operations Date 2017 Abstract For Ecological Interface Design (EID), the underlying constraints and properties of an operator’s work domain are analysed and used as a basis for the design of the information displays, so that these may reveal these underlying mechanisms. Most evaluations for EID have been performed with expert or trained participants. However, it can be hypothesised that the effects of EID will also change the way tasks are learned by novices; since the EID designs support direct manipulation, and at the same time show the constraints in the work domain, a novice would be able to perform the task as a skill, employing the direct manipulation features of the interface, while at the same time learning the underlying constraints from the work domain. Our interest is the effect of an EID display on skill acquisition in a flying task. To this end we evaluated the EID display by (Amelink, Mulder, van Paassen, & Flach, 2005) in a study with novice pilots, learning flight path and speed control of a simulated aircraft. It was found that initial performance by the EID group was better than by a control group, the EID group also showed more consistent and homogeneous behavior. The EID display did not lead to increased workload, as measured with the Rating Scale for Mental Effort. Asymptotic performance levels for both groups were not significantly different. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d93906dd-7e61-44b2-ad55-bc39ac274ee5 ISBN 978-1-5108-4214-4 Source 19th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP 2017): Dayton, Ohio, USA, 8-11 May 2017 Event 19th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 2017-05-08 → 2017-05-11, Dayton, United States Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 Ronald Deerenberg, M.M. van Paassen, C. Borst, Max Mulder Files PDF ISAP4960_Deerenberg_eidtraining.pdf 557 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d93906dd-7e61-44b2-ad55-bc39ac274ee5/datastream/OBJ/view