State-of-the-Art and Future Concepts for Interaction in Aircraft Cockpits

Effects of Touch, Voice, and Multimodal Input, and Task Load on Multiple-UAV Monitoring Performance During Simulated Manned-Unmanned Teaming in a Military Helicopter

“…Our results also have practical implications for voice-controlled systems. For example, there has been a recent emphasis on integrating voice control into the aircraft cockpit (Thomas, Biswas, & Langdon, 2015). Although voice control is often considered a more natural and less physically demanding input method, our results suggest that caution is needed when designing interfaces for users who share common communication channels (e.g., ATC frequencies in today's airliner cockpit).…”

Eye Gaze Controlled Projected Display in Automotive and Military Aviation Environments

“…Many limitations in pilot-cockpit interaction were recognized at least three decades ago by the United States Air Force, which idealised solving all of these problems in one 'Super Cockpit' [28]; a generic crew station that would conform to operators' natural perceptual, cognitive, and motor capabilities. Thomas [29] listed all input and output modalities used in a few modern fighter aircrafts that include physical buttons, target designation system (a joystick attached to throttle), direct voice input and touch screens for data input and head-mounted, head down and head up displays for output [30].…”

Operating Different Displays in Military Fast Jets Using Eye Gaze Tracker

“…Recently, touchscreen displays and head trackers have also been explored in fighter aircraft. Thomas, Biswas, and Langdon (2015) listed all input and output modalities used in a few modern fighter aircraft. Grandt, Pfendler, and Mooshage (2013) compared trackball, touchscreen, speech input, and mouse for an anti-warfare system; however, the experimental set up was similar to a desktop computing environment with pointing and selection as the only task to be undertaken.…”