Affiliation:
1. Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
Abstract
This research involved the evaluation of a multimodal asynchronous communications tool to support collaborative analysis of post-operations in the National Airspace System (NAS). Collaborating authors have been shown to provide different feedback with asynchronous speech based communications compared to text. Voice synchronized with pointing in asynchronous annotation systems has been found to be more efficient in scheduling tasks, than voice-only, or text only communication. This research investigated how synchronized voice and pointing annotation over asynchronously shared slide shows composed of post operations graphical and tabular data differs in its effect compared to text based annotation, as collections of flights ranked low by standard performance metrics are discussed by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and airline representatives. The results showed the combined problem solving and message creation time was shorter when working in the voice and pointing mode than the text based mode, without having an effect on the number and type of ideas generated for improving performance. In both modes the system was also considered useful and usable to both dispatchers and traffic managers.
Subject
General Medicine,General Chemistry
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