Portable laptops, cell phones, touchscreen equipment and other mobile devices are changing the way commercial airplane pilots are handling information used for flying aircraft. Pilot expertise and skill are being transformed by a new approach in which fingertips are replacing traditional hands-on methods of controlling airplanes. Drawing on participatory and interview methods at a UK airbase, this article draws on ethnographic research with commercial pilots and pilot cadets, to trace the refashioning of cell phone media in an aviation context where touch-based computer screens replace traditional airplane technology. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, this article examines how the knowing, sensing and intuition through the hands allows for a particular sort of la prise (grip) which accustoms itself to the emergence of new tactile and human–computer interfaces.

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飞行飞机的触觉转变：从动手飞行到手指飞行

便携式笔记本电脑、手机、触摸屏设备和其他移动设备正在改变商用飞机飞行员处理飞行飞机信息的方式。飞行员的专业知识和技能正在通过一种新方法发生转变，其中指尖正在取代传统的手动控制飞机的方法。本文借鉴英国空军基地的参与式和访谈方法，利用对商业飞行员和飞行员学员的人种学研究，追踪手机媒体在触摸式计算机屏幕取代传统飞机技术的航空环境中的重塑。本文借鉴梅洛-庞蒂的现象学，探讨了通过双手的认知、感知和直觉如何产生一种特殊的握力，这种握力习惯了新的触觉和人机界面的出现。