Citation

Comstock JR. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1984; 28(2): 128-132.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/154193128402800207

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In a series of three experiments on the effects on eye-scan behavior of both simulator and aircraft motion, the sensitivity of an oculometric measure to motion effects was demonstrated. "Fixation time", defined as the time the eyes spend at a particular location before moving on (saccade) to another fixation point, was found to be sensitive to motion effects in each of the experiments conducted. The results of the present study support the hypothesis that motion serves an alerting function, providing a "cue" or "clue" to the pilot that "something happened". The results do not support the hypothesis that direction of motion is conveyed through the type of motion information employed in these experiments.

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