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Does effective gaze behavior lead to enhanced performance in a complex error-detection cockpit task?

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  • Stephanie Brams
  • Ignace T C Hooge
  • Gal Ziv
  • Siska Dauwe
  • Ken Evens
  • Tony De Wolf
  • Oron Levin
  • Johan Wagemans
  • Werner F Helsen

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The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between expertise, performance, and gaze behavior in a complex error-detection cockpit task. Twenty-four pilots and 26 non-pilots viewed video-clips from a pilot’s viewpoint and were asked to detect malfunctions in the cockpit instrument panel. Compared to non-pilots, pilots detected more malfunctioning instruments, had shorter dwell times on the instruments, made more transitions, visited task-relevant areas more often, and dwelled longer on the areas between the instruments. These results provide evidence for three theories that explain underlying processes for expert performance: The long-term working memory theory, the information-reduction hypothesis, and the holistic model of image perception. In addition, the results for generic attentional skills indicated a higher capability to switch between global and local information processing in pilots compared to non-pilots. Taken together, the results suggest that gaze behavior as well as other generic skills may provide important information concerning underlying processes that can explain successful performance during flight in expert pilots.

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  • Stephanie Brams & Ignace T C Hooge & Gal Ziv & Siska Dauwe & Ken Evens & Tony De Wolf & Oron Levin & Johan Wagemans & Werner F Helsen, 2018. "Does effective gaze behavior lead to enhanced performance in a complex error-detection cockpit task?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-25, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0207439
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207439
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