A Coherent Assessment of Visual Ergonomics in Flight Deck Impacted by Color and Luminance

摘要

This research proposed a coherent assessment method for evaluating visual ergonomics in simulated flight deck via evaluating psychological indices and performance during a series of experiments. A simulated flight deck environment was established according to the dimensions of a real commercial aircraft cockpit with back projection, and then a balanced sequence of pseudo random variates was generated with replicated Latin square design. After the experiment of 18 interior color levels and 2 luminance levels, a complex statistical analysis was conducted to examine the significance as well as correlations within different factors. The fluctuation of luminance can affects the results slightly, while the change of the interior color, both hue and saturation-intensity levels, can influence subjects' visual ergonomics significantly and interactively. This coherent assessment indicates that light blue was the best choice, whereas, vivid yellow was the last among the 18 colors.