If the
information displayed on screen depends on the
scenario or the situation,
then the situation perception is
error prone. If the
information displayed on screen depends on the
scenario or the situation,
then the situation perception is
error prone.
The confusion is due to overloading a display with several data items.
Therefore, to prevent confusion of a particular variable, a display should be
allocated to this variable, and should not be shared with other variables.
If a display unit should be used for displaying
various variables, then specific means should be designed to enable the
operators to recognize the variable being displayed .
if a remote control of an air conditioning unit displays both the target and the current temperatures using a shared display, then the operator might confuse the reading of the target temperature with the reading of the current temperature.
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