AVS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ground Proximity Warning System, Episodic Memory, Motor Program
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Human factors concerns the relationship between people and equipment, procedures, the environment, and other people. Involving: physiology, psychology, sociology, anthropometry, bio-mechanics, technology. Illustrates the interfaces between humans (the crew) and machine systems, software, the environment , and other humans: s, h, e, l, l. Human information processing: detecting information received from senses and paid attention to, information interpreted (perception) Most processing involves 2 sources: information from outside world (senses, information already stored in memory, our mental model is based on the senses and past experience. Iconic memory: 70% of information processed by man enters the visual channel, visual = iconic, iconic memory = 0. 5 1. 0 seconds, rapidly decays, used in cine film to enable impression of smooth movement. Echoic memory: aural, 2 8 seconds, decays more slowly. When man focuses on certain features of the environment to the exclusion of others .
