This papers discusses the human factors of conducting field research, within the context of a recent field evaluation of a new aircraft taxi navigation and situation awareness (T-NASA) system developed at NASA Ames Research Center. Several critical issues that were confronted in the process of the field evaluation effort are presented, followed by an account of how these issues were resolved. From these experiences, guidelines concerning both the objectives and methods of field evaluations are provided to assist researchers in their future field evaluation efforts.
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