Human Factors Design Guidelines for Aircraft Multifunction Displays

A collection of human factors design guidelines for multifunction displays, summarized from existing references. The guidelines are organized into sections covering general principles, the design process, and specific display types like air traffic, weather, and navigation. The work includes relevant data graphs to illustrate recommendations and samples from existing standards.

Use Cases

• Designing cockpit display interfaces based on the summarized human factors guidelines.
• Developing automation features for aircraft systems based on the automation design principles.
• Organizing menu structures for multifunction displays based on the MFD menu organization guidelines.
• Creating weather or navigation display prototypes based on the specific design sections.

Strengths

• Guidelines are organized into specific, actionable sections like air traffic and weather displays.
• Includes data graphs to visually support some of the design recommendations.
• References and summarizes an extant body of guidelines and standards.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Sig Mejdal

Collection Method

Summarized from references related to the design of multifunction displays.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

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