Use of television for remote control: A preliminary study

Abstract

"Future air weapon and space flight systems… require a wide range of remote control and manipulation activities." An experimental test of the use of television in a remote performance situation was made in which 15 male right-handed air force officers were utilized as Ss. "The task required S to follow a pursuit rotor target with a stylus while viewing the rotor turntable and stylus tip in a 17 in. black and white television monitor screen… . The usefulness of closed circuit television… to provide visual feedback for a remote performance field appears to be seriously limited when the visual field is displaced. This limitation can be partially overcome by repositioning the monitor screen in the operator's visual field in such a manner as to compensate for the camera displacement." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)