TY - BOOK ID - 136476944 TI - Color and visual factors in ATC displays : final report AU - Xing, Jing. AU - United States. AU - Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. PY - 2006 PB - Washington, D.C. : Ft. Belvior, VA : Springfield, Va. : Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine ; Available to the public through the Defense Technical Information Center ; Available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, DB - UniCat KW - Airports KW - Color display systems KW - Traffic control KW - Display systems. KW - Psychological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136476944 AB - This study investigates color use in air traffic control (ATC) facilities to understand the ways color is being used, the associated benefits, and its influence on task performance. It was found that, while color use has some advantages for information processing, such as reducing workload and saving time, it also has disadvantages and may introduce negative effects in task performance. The benefits of color use were identified, and rationales were provided for how to use color properly to optimize those benefits. The negative effects of color use with respect to associated cognitive factors were analyzed, and two checklists that evaluate advantages and negative effects of color use in ATC displays were derived which can be used for design prototypes and acquisition evaluation. ER -