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Visualization and Modeling of Factors Influencing Visibility in Computer-Aided Crewstation Design
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We have developed two modules for use in computer-aided design (CAD) of crewstation environments that enhance the designer's appreciation of factors influencing the pilot's vision and visual processing capacity. The Binocular Optics Module (BOM) is an interactive tool for visualizing geometric aspects of 1) how retinal imagery of the environment changes on the pilot's retinas under conditions of eye and object motion, and 2) how visual capabilities that can be modeled as regions or contours on the retinas, affect spatial perception of the environment.
The Visual Performance Module (VPM) contains a signal processing model of human visual discrimination that quantitatively predicts visual discrimination performance. The outputs of the VPM are retinal contours that represent performance probabilities. These contours may be used as inputs to the BOM for visualizing those volumes of space within the crewstation that bound different levels of the pilot's of visual discrimination capability.
Used together, the BOM and VPM provide the designer with the opportunity to interactively explore relationships between environmental retinal imagery and visual function, and the ability to factor the pilot's visual capabilities into the earliest phases of crewstation CAD.
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Arditi, A., Azueta, S., Larimer, J., Prevost, M. et al., "Visualization and Modeling of Factors Influencing Visibility in Computer-Aided Crewstation Design," SAE Technical Paper 921135, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/921135.Also In
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