2020
Conference Paper
Title

Design and Evaluation of a Tool to Support Air Traffic Control with 2D and 3D Visualizations

Abstract
Air traffic control officers (ATCOs) are specialized workers responsible to monitor and guide airplanes in their assigned airspace. Such a task is highly visual and mainly supported by 2D visualizations. In this paper, we designed and assessed an application for visualizing air traffic in both orthographic (2D) and perspective (3D) views. A user study was then performed to compare these two types of representations in terms of situation awareness, workload, performance, and user acceptance. Results show that the 3D view yielded both higher situation awareness and less workload than the 2D view condition. However, such a performance does not match the opinion of the ATCOs about the 3D representation.
Author(s)
Rottermanner, Gernot
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Jesus Oliveira, Victor Adriel de
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Lechner, Patrik
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Graf, Philipp
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Kreiger, Mylene
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Wagner, Markus
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Iber, Michael
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
Rokitansky, Carl-Herbert
Univ. of Salzburg
Eschbacher, Kurt
Univ. of Salzburg
Grantz, Volker
Frequentis AG, Vienna, Austria
Settgast, Volker
Fraunhofer Austria Research  
Judmaier, Peter
St. Poelten Univ. of Applied Sciences
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