Eye Gaze Controlled MFD for Military Aviation
Pradipta Biswas, Jeevithashree DV · 2018
Multi-Function Displays (MFD) are essential part of glass cockpit of modern military and civilian aircrafts. They can display more information in less space than traditional analog displays. Interacting with MFDs is still now limited to a joystick system attached to throttle (called Target Des-ignation System, TDS). This paper explored using gaze con-trolled interface for MFD and proposed two algorithms based on hotspots and adaptable zooming for improving response times in a gaze controlled interface. Three user studies confirmed gaze controlled MFD can significantly reduce response times for big peripheral buttons compared to touchscreen in a head down configuration and com-pared to existing TDS in a head up configuration.