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Download Complete 2003 HFDS (Zip file, 10.8 Mb)
Includes 15 chapters, appendices, glossary, index, tables, & references; includes updates through October 2009.
Individual HFDS Chapters
(2003 edition, except as indicated)
- Chapter 1. Introduction (0.3 Mb)
- Chapter 2. General Design Requirements (0.2 Mb)
- Chapter 3. Automation (0.6 Mb)
- Chapter 4. Designing Equipment for Maintenance (1.8 Mb)
- Contains errata corrected February 2005
- Chapter 4 Errata Sheet
- Chapter 5. Displays and Printers (0.6 Mb)
- Update to Chapter 5 Displays Section, July 2007
- Though the information about displays in Chapter 5 has been updated, the information about printers has not. For information about printers, please use the 2003 edition of Chapter 5.
- Chapter 6. Controls and Visual Indicators (0.7 Mb)
- Chapter 7. Alarms, Audio, and Voice (0.5 Mb)
- Chapter 8. Computer-Human Interface (2.8 Mb)
- Contains errata corrected January 2005.
- Chapter 8 Errata Sheet
- Chapter 9. Input Devices (0.6 Mb)
- Chapter 10. Workplace Design (1.0 Mb)
- Chapter 11. System Security (0.2 Mb)
- Chapter 12. Personnel Safety (0.7 Mb)
- Chapter 13. Environment (0.5 Mb)
- Chapter 14. Anthropometry and Biomechanics (1.0 Mb) Updated October 2009
- Chapter 15. User Documentation (0.8 Mb)
HFDS Revisions Draft for Comment
- DRAFT: Appendix A: Standard actions for pushbuttons and menus (0.1 Mb)
- Appendix B: Anthropometric Data of Federal Aviation Administration Technical Operations Personnel (0.4 Mb) - Updated October 2009
- DRAFT: Human Factors Criteria for the Design and Acquisition of Keyboards (1.3 Mb)
- DRAFT: Human Factors Criteria for the Design and Acquisition of Non-keyboard Interaction Devices (1.7 Mb)
- Contains errata corrected January 2007