ABSTRACT
Consumer market touch screens ubiquity has driven the avionics industry to launch in-depth evaluations of touch screens for cockpit integration. This chapter is a follow-up from a 2015 International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP) paper in which a methodology for turbulence simulation design was presented. One of the challenges was to verify touch screen compatibility with in-flight use under turbulent conditions, ranging from light to severe. The avionics industry recognized early on the need to alleviate such usability risk, and the results of our evaluations enabled us to define recommendations for our HMI designs. Using our validated turbulence profiles, basic touchscreen interaction performances were analyzed, and this paper will focus on the results we gathered using our turbulence simulator.
