Examination of cursor control techniques to designate targets on a cockpit map display

Performance, characteristics, and error rates of cursor control devices for aircraft cockpit interaction

“…An early study into touch-sensitive overlays by Curry [16] reports an almost halving of selection time compared to conventional TDCs and instructional voice commands. A series of studies by Liggett et al [32,33] drew similar conclusions, observing touch screen interaction to be faster than a TDC joystick, which itself was faster than voice control. However, the conventional TDC was found to be more prone to input error than both voice and touchscreen methods.…”

“…Therefore the poor selection time performance indicated in this study may not necessarily impact the overall performance as much as implied by treating it as a device for prolonged, repetitive movement. However, the underlying issues of movement accuracy for pointing sticks are demonstrated here and elsewhere, and there is an increasingly growing consensus that traditional HOTAS TDCs will not be adequate for future cockpit designs where more data will need to be presented and interacted with [17,27,32], thus increasing the frequency the CCD is used.…”