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Journal Article

Guidelines for NextGen Auditory Displays

Authors: Begault, Durand R.

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · Volume 60 · Issue 7/8 · pp. 519–530 · July 2012

Abstract

The author reviews the requirements and design approaches for auditory displays in flight decks and air traffic control workstations as part of NextGen, the major reconfiguration of the National Airspace System. The design philosophy includes: filtering information to reduce the burden on mental resources; integrate, categorize, and prioritize information to enable mentally economic processing; and embed information in alerting signal to facilitate efficient allocation of attention.The quality of an auditory display can be viewed in terms of how each message hierarchically satisfies four general principles: detection, discrimination, intelligibility, and familiarity.

Details

Publication
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume
60
Issue
7/8
Pages
519–530
Publication date
July 6, 2012
Affiliation
Human Systems Integration Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Journal Article