The content validity ratio (Lawshe) is one of the earliest and most widely used methods for quantifying content validity. To correct and expand the table, critical values in unit steps and at multiple alpha levels were computed. Implications for content validation are discussed.

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Vigilance and threat detection are critical human factors considerations in the control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Utilizing a vigilance task in which threat detections (critical signals) led observers to perform a subsequent manual target acquisition task, this study provides information that might have important implications for both of these considerations in the design of future UAV systems. A sensory display format resulted in more threat detections, fewer false alarms, and faster target acquisition times and imposed a lighter workload than did a cognitive display format. Additionally, advanced visual, spatial-audio, and haptic cuing interfaces enhanced acquisition performance over no cuing in the target acquisition phase of the task, and they did so to a similar degree. Thus, in terms of potential applications, this research suggests that a sensory format may be the best display format for threat detection by future UAV operators, that advanced cuing interfaces may prove useful in future UAV systems, and that these interfaces are functionally interchangeable.

Future Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will require operators to switch quickly and efficiently from supervisory to manual control. Utilizing a vigilance task in which threat detections (critical signals) led observers to perform a subsequent manual target acquisition task, the present investigation revealed that the type of vigilance display might have important design implications for future UAV systems. A sensory display format resulted in more threat detections, fewer false alarms, and faster target acquisition times and imposed a lighter workload than a cognitive display format. Thus, the former may be the best display arrangement for future UAV controllers. Additionally, advanced visual, spatial audio, and haptic cueing interfaces enhanced acquisition performance over no cueing in the target acquisition phase of the task, and did so to a similar degree. This finding suggests that advanced cueing interfaces may also prove useful in future UAV systems and that these interfaces are functionally interchangeable.

Subjects listened for increments in the duration of recurrent white noise pulses delivered to either the left or the right ear during a t-h vigilance session. The temporal uncertainty of critical signal occurrences was varied by use of signal densities of 24, 48, and 96 signals /hour. Response times to signal detections increased as a function of an information measure of the temporal uncertainty of signals with a markedly stronger effect from left-ear presentation. Thus, a functional lateral asymmetry in the cortical processing of temporal information in this type of task was indicated.