Crew interface design for a flight deck electronic library system

Abstract

The design and evaluation of a Honeywell Inc. stand-alone electronic library system (ELS) for flight operations applications are discussed. The major components of this ELS include an optical disk mass storage device, an active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) with touch-screen user interface, and an ARINC 744 printer. A workstation-based, rapid-prototyping environment, was developed to support iterative definition of ELS concepts, especially viable crew interface techniques and display screen formats. The results of Phase 1 evaluation are presented, to assess the effectiveness of the crew interface design. The only features of the user interface to receive marginal ratings were response times for printing, text pages and charts. All other features were deemed to be acceptable or excellent.<>