A Peripheral Integrated Status Display: Is it Really Giving the “Big Picture” or is It a Miniseries?

Abstract

Much effort has been directed towards the creation of effective integerated displays for vehicle or system control. These efforts have generally been aimed at “primary” instruments or indices of system performance and only comparatively recently have secondary indices received similar attention. Each group of indices, however, has generally been kept separate, resulting in systems having multiple nonintegrated integrated displays. A method is proposed whereby these may be combined within a single instrument or “integrated” integrated display. This method is based upon the use of spatial cues created by regular versus irregular polygons. A major question at issue is whether such a display constitutes a single integrated shape or merely an assembly of subshapes that are serially scanned.

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