Research on the Design of In-Cockpit Display Interface for Fighter Aircraft Based on Visual Attention Mechanism

Abstract

The advances of aviation technology continue to boost the performance of fighter aircrafts and to complicate future sky battlefields, which continually add more and more information that must be presented to the pilot via the cockpit interface, significantly increasing his/her cognitive workload. This study analyzes the evolution of contemporary in-cockpit display interface of warplanes, identifies the general rules of the interface design and looks ahead to future development trends. By doing so, this study brings forward principles of cockpit display interface design from the perspective of visual attention mechanism and tests their effectiveness and feasibility via comparative experiments using simplified prototypes.