Single axis manual tracking was compared to dual axis tracking for zero, first, second and third order dynamics. Tracking error on the original axis was significantly degraded for first, second and third order dynamics with no difference occurring for zero order. The results seem to indicate that the operator's information handling capacity becomes overloaded as the system order increases resulting in a decrement of performance.
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