Cognitive networks as a guide to menu organization: An application in the automated cockpit

Autor: Kenneth R. Paap, Renate J. Roske-Hofstrand
Rok vydání: 1986
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Zdroj: Ergonomics. 29:1301-1311
ISSN: 1366-5847
0014-0139
DOI: 10.1080/00140138608967247
Popis: When a menu-driven interface controls information in the domain of expertise of the end users, the difficulty that inexperienced users typically have in accessing the panels they seek can be reduced by making the menu organization consistent with the user's cognitive organization. A general tool for deriving a cognitive network is described and applied to the concepts displayed and controlled on the panels of an interface to a flight management system. The cognitive network was used to select the options that would appear on each panel of three different prototypes. The prototypes differed with respect to the amount of redundancy (extra pathways) between a set of dominating panels that appeared on a primary index page and the remaining panels. A fourth prototype was based on the recommendations of a design team rather than the cognitive network derived from a sample of pilots. Four pilots were assigned to each of the four prototypes, in a training session that required the pilots to find specific...
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