Control-display Association Preferences For Ganged Controls

Item

Title
Control-display Association Preferences For Ganged Controls
Date
1954
Index Abstract
Online
Photo Quality
Not Needed
Report Number
WADC TR 54-379
Corporate Author
Aero Medical Laboratory
Laboratory
Aero Medical Laboratory
Extent
15
PB Number
PB111600
NTRL Accession Number
AD052499
Identifier
AD0052499
Access Rights
Unknown
Distribution Classification
1
DTIC Record Exists
No
Distribution Change Authority Correspondence
AFAL LTR
Distribution Conflict
Fix
Index Price
$0.50
Index In
U.S. Government Research Reports, vol. 23, no. 4, p.145, 4/15/1955
Abstract
Seventy-five male college students and twenty-five human engineering psychologists were given a questionnaire presenting diagrams consisting of three concentrically ganged knobs and three dials which they were told the knobs operate. They were asked which dial they thought should be operated by each of the three knobs. Knob-dial associations were obtained with dials in horizontal an vertical arrays above, below, to the left of and to the right of the knobs, and with dials differing in size, shape and diatnce from the knob axis. Knob-dial associations were found to be influenced by all of these factors except dial shape. Associations which were both strong and relatively unrivaled were found for dial position in a horizontal array (except when the array is to the left of the knobs) , and for dial size. Subjects associated the spatial knob progression, front knob to back knob with the spatial dial progression, left dial to right dial and with the dial size progression, smallest dial to largest dial. Strong, but stongly rivaled, associations were found for dial position in a vertical array and for dial distance from the knob axis.
Report Availability
Full text available
Date Issued
1954-08
Provenance
Hunt Library, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Type
report
Format
1 online resource
Creator
Bradley, James V.
Media
WADCTR54-379.pdf