Detection Performance in a Simulated Real-Time Airborne Reconnaissance Mission
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- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Vol. 13 (1) , 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872087101300101
Abstract
The ability of fifty-four subjects to find and designate tactical military targets on a cathode-ray-tube display was evaluated as a function of five experimental variables. Results indicated that probability of detection was sensitive to variations in target type, target-to-background contrast, and image rate of motion, or time available for search. False positive rate was affected only by available search time. Implications of these results for the design of real-time reconnaissance systems are discussed.Keywords
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