This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Manual Control, held at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, March 20-22, 1979. Fifty-six papers were presented during the conference all are represented, in this volume either as complete papers or as abstracts provided by the authors. Topics of the papers include higher order manual tasks involving attention allocation and decision-making, human dynamic modelling and identification, and design methodology for human operator controlled systems. Also covered were aspects of control manipulators and displays, as well as considerations for simulation of human operator- controlled systems.
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