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The purpose of the study is to analyse the directional compatibility of control-display design and its effects on the mental workload of helmsmen. An experiment is then carried out on a simulator designed by a world leader in military naval shipbuilding. This experiment follows a unique scenario including four usual submarine maneuvers. It is achieved by two groups, each carrying out a perceptual-motor task on a specific steering control-display configuration, proposed by the naval shipbuilder (one with a standard numeric display and one with a new visual-spatial representation, both tasks controlled by the same joystick). The findings of this study show that the control-display compatibility produces increased mental workload when a direction-of-motion stereotype is violated (upward-forward relationship).
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This paper is an adapted and shortened version of: Rauffet, P., Chauvin, C., Nistico, C., Judas, S., and Toumelin, N. (2016). Analysis of submarine steering: effects of cognitive and perceptual–motor requirements on the mental workload and performance of helmsmen. Cognition, Technology and Work, 18(4), 657–672.
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Rauffet, P., Chauvin, C., Nistico, C., Judas, S., Toumelin, N. (2017). Effect of Control-Display Compatibility on the Mental Workload of Submarine Helmsmen. In: Longo, L., Leva, M. (eds) Human Mental Workload: Models and Applications. H-WORKLOAD 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 726. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61061-0_13
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