Human Control in Rotated Frames: Anisotropies in the Misalignment Disturbance Function of Pitch, Roll, and Yaw

Comparative misalignment disturbance functions (MDF) have been measured for rotations between display and control axes for pure pitch, roll, and yaw misalignments in a high fidelity virtual environment. Twenty participants manually moved a virtual cursor using position control to touch 3-dimensionally, randomly presented nearby targets having a constant Fitts Index of Difficulty. Results show a peak disturbance near 120° of rotation for all axes with Roll being distinguishably more disturbed. Some reasons for observed anisotropies, nonlinearities and an equiaxial spiral feature are briefly discussed and modeled

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