Citation

Ellis SR. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1982; 26(11): 1005-1009.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/154193128202601122

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A statistical method to identify reliable, repetitive scanning patterns in the positions of visual fixations has been developed and applied to data from 8 airline pilots who monitored cockpit displays of traffic information (CDTI). Their fixational transition patterns between points of interest on the display showed deterministic, statistical dependencies generally associated with symbols predicting future aircraft position. These dependencies constitute deviations from stratified random sampling of the visual information on the display, confirm the importance of future aircraft position information for the use of CDTI, and provide objective support for the existence of "scanpaths" in visual fixation patterns.

Language: en