[FPSPACE] Help Test a Space Shuttle Cockpit Display

[Larry Klaes]

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:05:19 -0700
To: Larry Klaes <lklaes@bbn.com>
From: Rob McCann <rmccann@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Ames SMART experiments

	 NASA is currently working on a shuttle cockpit upgrade 
project whose goal is to change the current cockpit displays to 
make them more intuitive and easier to understand.  

        The idea is to give the astronauts more situation awareness 
concerning the shuttle's current status, and thereby enable them 
to work off-nominal situations more efficiently. 

        The result?  Hopefully, enabling them to get an orbiter home 
safely under high-risk conditions, such as engine-outs and mission 
abort scenarios, that would be much harder to work in today's cockpit.

	Here at NASA-Ames we have recently started a web-based 
approach to evaluating candidate displays, called the Shuttle 
Mathematical Analysis of Reaction Times (SMART) experiments.  

       This is literally a way for the public at large to provide 
meaningful data that will help with the display design and 
evaluation process.  

	Take the test to help future astronauts at this Web site:

		http://shuttle-upgrade.arc.nasa.gov/


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Dr. Robert McCann
NASA-Ames Research Center
Tel: (650) 604-0052
Fax: (650) 604-3323
e-mail: rmccann@mail.arc.nasa.gov
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