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Balancing The Mind: The Role Of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors In Managing Anxiety, Olivia Mace Mar 2024

Balancing The Mind: The Role Of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors In Managing Anxiety, Olivia Mace

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Olivia’s senior capstone review article focuses on the role of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram in the management of anxiety. SSRIs have been successfully used to treat depression for decades, with fluoxetine (Prozac) being introduced to the US market in 1987. Recently it has been found that the SSRI escitalopram has efficacy in treating anxiety as well as depression. Olivia’s review is detailed and timely. Unmanaged anxiety and depression are common among students and this review will be of interest to students, parents and the university population in general.


‘Things That You Can’T Really Suppress’: Adverse Childhood Experiences In The Narratives Of People With Opioid Use Disorder, Sydney Silverstein, Josef Rivera, Danielle Gainer, Raminta Daniulaityte Dec 2023

‘Things That You Can’T Really Suppress’: Adverse Childhood Experiences In The Narratives Of People With Opioid Use Disorder, Sydney Silverstein, Josef Rivera, Danielle Gainer, Raminta Daniulaityte

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

While numerous studies have established relationships between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult substance use, few qualitative studies have explored the differing ways in which experiences of childhood adversity are emplotted into narratives of drug use and recovery. This paper analyzes qualitative data collected as part of a mixed-methods longitudinal study of people with opioid use disorder. Narratives of adverse childhood experiences emerged unprompted. After coding qualitative data for mention of ACEs, we thematically analyzed coded data using a framework of critical phenomenology and constructed a four-part typology to differentiate the ways that ACEs were emplotted into narratives. Our …


Effects Of Telehealth On Dropout And Retention In Care Among Treatment-Seeking Individuals With Substance Use Disorder: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Danielle Gainer, Celeste Wong, Jared A. Embree, Nina Sardesh, Amna Amin, Natalie Lester Jan 2023

Effects Of Telehealth On Dropout And Retention In Care Among Treatment-Seeking Individuals With Substance Use Disorder: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Danielle Gainer, Celeste Wong, Jared A. Embree, Nina Sardesh, Amna Amin, Natalie Lester

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth became a widely used method of delivering treatment for substance use disorders (SUD), but its impact upon treatment engagement and dropout remains unknown. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of adult SUD patients (n = 544) between October 2020 and June 2022 among a cohort of treatment-seeking patients at a nonprofit community behavioral health center in Southwestern Ohio. We estimated the likelihood of treatment dropout using survival curves and Cox proportional hazard models, comparing patients who used telehealth with video, telephone, or solely in-person services within the first 14 days of diagnosis. We also …


A Review On Psychosocial Distress Among General Population Of Pakistan During Covid-19 Pandemic, Anosh Arshad Chaudhary, Iqra Arooj, Amina Elahi Jun 2022

A Review On Psychosocial Distress Among General Population Of Pakistan During Covid-19 Pandemic, Anosh Arshad Chaudhary, Iqra Arooj, Amina Elahi

Journal of Bioresource Management

The COVID-19 crisis in 2019 significantly impacted human life all over the globe. Psychological health of general population has been affected by the unpredictable circumstances and impulsion of living in isolation, if suspected positive for coronavirus. During COVID-19 outbreak, escalation of various types of psychosocial distresses such as anxiety, sleep disorders and depression has been observed in the general population globally. Thus, there is an urgent need to combat these issues through well planned strategies. The focus of this review is to conduct a thorough evaluation of the available research on the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental status …


Beyond Trauma-Informed Care: Insights From A Qualitative Study, Danielle Gainer, Sydney Silverstein, Josef Rivera, Raminta Daniulaityte Apr 2022

Beyond Trauma-Informed Care: Insights From A Qualitative Study, Danielle Gainer, Sydney Silverstein, Josef Rivera, Raminta Daniulaityte

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

Background: The impact of opioid use disorder (OUD) upon communities across the United States remains at epidemic levels, with a record number of overdose deaths recorded in 2020. As many communities have responded to this ongoing crisis with evidence-based treatment, harm reduction interventions and pharmacotherapy, recent efforts have focused on trauma-informed approaches to SUD care, taking into account the high prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences and related trauma in the lives of people living with OUD (Felliti, 1998; Stein, 2017). However, experiences of trauma and the manifestations of trauma in contemporary experience are never uniform (Maté, 2009). Qualitative research among …


Virtual Is Now Reality: Telehealth To Deliver Care For Substance Use Disorders, Brian Merrill, Danielle Gainer, Brent Schnipke Apr 2022

Virtual Is Now Reality: Telehealth To Deliver Care For Substance Use Disorders, Brian Merrill, Danielle Gainer, Brent Schnipke

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

Models of care for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have traditionally required face-to-face visits, since individuals receive a broad range of services including individual psychotherapy, group therapy, urine drug screens, laboratory testing, dispensation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), and prescriptions for psychotropic or other medications. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth became a more widely used method of delivering healthcare, including for SUD treatment. While the pandemic posed respiratory health concerns to all, individuals with a SUD were additionally vulnerable when attempting to access life-saving medications. An enforcement waiver of both federal and state telehealth rules during the …


Surveying Collegiate Student Pilots For Their Perspectives On Their Collegiate Flight Training Experience, Nicoletta Fala, Denise K. Whitford May 2021

Surveying Collegiate Student Pilots For Their Perspectives On Their Collegiate Flight Training Experience, Nicoletta Fala, Denise K. Whitford

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Women make up roughly half of the population, but continue to be an underrepresented group in aviation. They constitute nearly 14% of student pilots, but only 8% of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilot certificates, leading to a lack of understanding why a substantial number of women do not complete their training. Past diversity initiatives have not resulted in a sufficient increase in the numbers. This paper discusses a study in progress that is intended to gain perceptions of women’s experiences and obstacles in collegiate flight programs using a longitudinal survey of collegiate pilots. The aim of the study is to …


Decision Support Tools For The Collaborative Trajectory Options Program, Philip J. Smith, Amy Spencer, Mark Evans, Bob Hoffman, Bert Hackney, Rafal Kicinger May 2021

Decision Support Tools For The Collaborative Trajectory Options Program, Philip J. Smith, Amy Spencer, Mark Evans, Bob Hoffman, Bert Hackney, Rafal Kicinger

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

The FAA currently makes frequent use of Flow Constrained Areas (FCAs) to thin traffic through some region of airspace by assigning departure delay to flights filed to fly through that airspace. An important potential future use of such FCAs is their integrated application within a Collaborative Trajectory Options Program (CTOP) Traffic Management Initiative (TMI). This paper reports the results of cognitive walkthroughs completed with ten recently retired traffic managers. These walkthroughs were designed to evaluate information and information display requirements, as well as other decision support requirements, for software to enable the creation of FCAs for a CTOP TMI


Airspace Complexity For Pilots Operating In High-Density Terminal Airspace: New York Case Study, Divya C. Chandra, Andrea Sparko, Andrew Kendra, Janeen Kochan May 2021

Airspace Complexity For Pilots Operating In High-Density Terminal Airspace: New York Case Study, Divya C. Chandra, Andrea Sparko, Andrew Kendra, Janeen Kochan

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Performance-based navigation (PBN) has been implemented in the redesign of terminal airspace across the National Airspace System (NAS). However, some locations, such as the New York metro area (NY), have not adopted PBN widely. Modernizing flight operations at high-density terminal airspace like NY is challenging, but also has the potential for significant operational benefits if successful. This research aims to understand the flight deck perspective on flying in high-density terminal airspace. We analyzed 73 events from the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) to assess flight operations at four major NY airports before COVID-19. We defined and explored the concept of …


Spatial-Temporal Cluster Approach To Discover Visual Scanning Behaviors In Virtual Reality, Ziho Kang, Jerry Crutchfield, Ricardo Palma Fraga, Saptarshi Mandal May 2021

Spatial-Temporal Cluster Approach To Discover Visual Scanning Behaviors In Virtual Reality, Ziho Kang, Jerry Crutchfield, Ricardo Palma Fraga, Saptarshi Mandal

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

If we could discover the visual scanning patterns of expert air traffic control operators (ATCOs), we could use those findings to better train novices. One critical issue is that visual scan paths can be complex even for a short period of time, therefore, a systematic approach is required to obtain clear and meaningful visual scanning patterns. We transformed the raw eye movement data of expert ATCOs into visual scanning patterns by using the collapsed eye movement sequences that occurred on important areas of interest, then visualized them based on accumulated time frames. We collected and subsequently analyzed controller eye movements …


Measuring The Range Of Attention To Preview And Its Momentary Persistence In Simulated Driving, Tyler N. Morrison, Richard J. Jagacinski, Jordan Petrov May 2021

Measuring The Range Of Attention To Preview And Its Momentary Persistence In Simulated Driving, Tyler N. Morrison, Richard J. Jagacinski, Jordan Petrov

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Participants used a position control system to track the center of a simulated winding roadway with preview that ranged from 0.3 to 1.0 s. Participants’ spatial distributions of attention were measured by perturbing the roadway with different frequency sinusoids at different roadway positions and then measuring the degree to which those frequencies were present in their tracking movements. Participants exhibited a continuous range of attention, and it lengthened with the amount of displayed preview. When preview disappeared for 5 s, longer time to regress to feedback control was strongly correlated with the amount of preview that was withdrawn. During preview …


The Customer Is Always Right… Towards Rhino Pointing And Eye Tracking Interfaces For Combat Aviators, Patrick Highland, Daniel Harp, Thomas Schnell, Eric Geiselman, Paul Havig May 2021

The Customer Is Always Right… Towards Rhino Pointing And Eye Tracking Interfaces For Combat Aviators, Patrick Highland, Daniel Harp, Thomas Schnell, Eric Geiselman, Paul Havig

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

At warfighter request, research was conducted to determine the military utility of eye tracking (ET) as a human machine interface (HMI) for large area displays (LADs) in a tactical live-flight environment. Flight test determined ET felt effortless until rapidly changing lighting conditions and pupil sizes as well as elevated gravitational load factor induced ET slippage rendered the requested interface unusable. In the spirit of, “the customer is always right,” researchers proved the warfighter ultimately wise in her request for a novel LAD HMI by testing a head tracking algorithm, called “Rhino Pointing (RP)”, alongside ET. RP was simpler to implement …


Uas Safety Zones: A Model For Addressing Increased Air Traffic Controller Workload, Pratik Jadhav, Damon Lercel, Sarah Hubbard May 2021

Uas Safety Zones: A Model For Addressing Increased Air Traffic Controller Workload, Pratik Jadhav, Damon Lercel, Sarah Hubbard

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

This paper presents a model to address the increased workload for air traffic controllers (ATC) due to the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the airport ecosystem. The FAA established small UAS operational regulations in 2016. Already, UAS pilots comprise over 20% of the total pilot population, and UAS account for 89% of the total aircraft registrations. Given current FAA resource constraints and the forecast growth of air traffic, innovative safety management solutions are required to address the increase in controller workload and the associated safety risks. This research presents one perspective regarding the impact of UAS operations on …


Modeling Contingency Management In Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management, Emily Barrett, Martijn Ijtsma May 2021

Modeling Contingency Management In Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management, Emily Barrett, Martijn Ijtsma

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Contingency management in future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Traffic Management (UTM) requires a variety of distributed and interdependent functions and services—such as flight tracking and conformance monitoring, weather detection and prediction, and ground-based detection and avoidance— that need to be coordinated across multiple roles and organizations. This paper describes a combination of cognitive walkthroughs and computational modeling of work to analyze edge case scenarios and assess resiliency in future UTM operations. We discuss how the walkthrough and modeling inform each other and present early results. The ultimate goal of this work is to identify requirements for robust and resilient system …


Human Factors Considerations For Urban Air Mobility, Bhoomin B. Chauhan, Meredith Carroll May 2021

Human Factors Considerations For Urban Air Mobility, Bhoomin B. Chauhan, Meredith Carroll

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Before urban air mobility (UAM) flights are safely integrated into the current airspace system, it is necessary to identify and address human factors issues associated with UAM. Various industry and academic institutions are currently exploring a range of different aspects of UAM, such as vehicle concepts, airspace integration, and ground infrastructure, all of which have human factors implications. These human factors issues, which will heavily influence how UAM operations will evolve with growth in demand and autonomous technology, are in need of research. Potential human factors issues include UAM pilot’s trust in automation, situational awareness, visual scanning, decision-making capabilities, as …


How To Teach College Aviation Students About Situation Awareness In A Virtual Classroom Setting, Andrew R. Dattel, Hui Wang, Nathaniel Booker, Andrei Matveev, Syaza R M Harris, Hanzi Xie, Zihao Zhang May 2021

How To Teach College Aviation Students About Situation Awareness In A Virtual Classroom Setting, Andrew R. Dattel, Hui Wang, Nathaniel Booker, Andrei Matveev, Syaza R M Harris, Hanzi Xie, Zihao Zhang

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Creating a group class project to demonstrate situation awareness (SA) can be an effective pedagogical approach. By engaging students in such projects, they can understand the meaning of SA — comprehension of relevant information in a dynamic environment (Durso et al., 2007). In an SA class taught at an aeronautical university during the past several years, students engaged in observational and interactive projects. However, COVID-19 has prohibited in-person activities. In lieu of such in-person activities, students enrolled in a virtual SA class during summer 2020 utilized online road cameras found at traffic intersections in Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. This …


Covid-19 Impacts On Collegiate Aviation Training, Xiaoyu O. Wu, Jacob J. Shila May 2021

Covid-19 Impacts On Collegiate Aviation Training, Xiaoyu O. Wu, Jacob J. Shila

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the aviation industry. The regular day-to-day fight training routines have been altered for several reasons, including physical distancing requirements, disrupted training schedule, and the increased level of concern. Aviation educators will likely need to adapt their programs to optimize the learning experience, maintain effective safety delivery, and ensure competent graduates. The impact of the month-long break in fight training on the airmanship skills is also unaccounted for. This study surveyed collegiate aviation students to identify the COVID-19 shut down impacts on both their fight skill developments and the over-all …


Using A Perceptual Speed Test To Predict Flight Training Performance: New Findings, Diane L. Damos, Alvah C. Bittner, Mary Niemczyk May 2021

Using A Perceptual Speed Test To Predict Flight Training Performance: New Findings, Diane L. Damos, Alvah C. Bittner, Mary Niemczyk

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Using a Perceptual Speed Test to Predict Flight Training Performance: New Findings


Applying Eye-Tracking Technology To Explore The Visual Scanning Practices Of Air Traffic Control Tower Controllers, Jerry Crutchfield, Ziho Kang, Ricardo Palma Fraga, Saptarshi Mandal May 2021

Applying Eye-Tracking Technology To Explore The Visual Scanning Practices Of Air Traffic Control Tower Controllers, Jerry Crutchfield, Ziho Kang, Ricardo Palma Fraga, Saptarshi Mandal

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

In the domain of Air Traffic Control (ATC), visual scanning refers to a systematic and continuous effort to acquire all necessary information to build and maintain a complete awareness of activities and situations which may affect the controllers’ area of responsibility. Our research team has supported FAA efforts to improve training of the important scanning skill, by conducting research to identify characteristics of successful tower visual scanning behavior. In addition to conducting multidisciplinary working groups and structured one-on-one interviews, we have collected eye-movement data from tower control experts while they controlled high fidelity air traffic simulations of airports at which …


Measuring Motivation In Pilot Training Applicants, John D. Trent, Mark R. Rose May 2021

Measuring Motivation In Pilot Training Applicants, John D. Trent, Mark R. Rose

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

This study evaluated applicant motivation in pilot selection. Traditional measures of motivation have moderate to low predictive validity in flight training and often show large subgroup differences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a self-report measure of motivation by examining 1) dimensionality, 2) reliability, 3) predictive validity, 4) construct validity, 5) validity based on known groups, and


Validating Stress Tolerance Exercise With Game-Based Assessment And Stress Checklists, Jóhann Wium May 2021

Validating Stress Tolerance Exercise With Game-Based Assessment And Stress Checklists, Jóhann Wium

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Stress tolerance is an important attribute for air traffic controllers. Assessing an individual’s stress tolerance should therefore be considered when selecting student air traffic controllers. Unfortunately, measures of stress tolerance are often self-reports and as such are subject to “faking good”. This paper details the validation of an observation-based stress tolerance exercise and its convergent validity with behavioral signs of stress (from stress checklists) and results of game-based assessments of Emotional Stability and Performance Under Pressure. The resulting data suggests that ratings from the exercise are valid and that game-based assessments can be used to predict ratings made from observable …


Applying Human Factors Heuristic Evaluation Tools To Improve Aviation Weather Displays: A Mismatch, John Kleber, Paige Lawton, Beth Blickensderfer May 2021

Applying Human Factors Heuristic Evaluation Tools To Improve Aviation Weather Displays: A Mismatch, John Kleber, Paige Lawton, Beth Blickensderfer

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Background. Weather-related accidents have one of the highest fatality rates among General Aviation (GA) accidents. Pilots obtain graphical and textual weather information from aviation weather displays during both preflight planning and while inflight. Interpretation scores of weather products remain low regardless of pilot certification/rating. Previous research identifies poor usability as one cause of weather displays' low interpretability. Given the frequency of updates to weather displays, a rapid usability assessment technique is needed. Heuristic evaluations are a common method for quickly identifying usability problems. Heuristics evaluations entail expert reviewers evaluating an interface using a validated set of heuristic guidelines. This paper …


An Analysis Of Information Requirements For Passengers Of (Autonomous) Urban Air Mobility Vehicles, Dennis B. Beringer May 2021

An Analysis Of Information Requirements For Passengers Of (Autonomous) Urban Air Mobility Vehicles, Dennis B. Beringer

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Much effort has been put into examining control/monitoring strategies for semiautonomous/autonomous urban air mobility vehicles (UAMVs). Less has been done to define information requirements for passengers to facilitate their cognitive comfort. Similarities and differences between driverless automobiles (and transport-category aircraft) and UAMVs will both affect what information is needed and what operational factors influence that need, including; perceived locus of control, shared fate, ambient visibility, familiarity with the area to be traversed, and operational status of the vehicle. Information impacted includes route/progress (location, estimated time of arrival), phase of flight, and system status as well as communications between passenger and …


Resilience Engineering’S Potential For Advanced Air Mobility (Aam), Christopher Nemeth, Jon Holbrook May 2021

Resilience Engineering’S Potential For Advanced Air Mobility (Aam), Christopher Nemeth, Jon Holbrook

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

The national airspace (NAS) will rapidly evolve in the next ten to twenty years. Plans for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) during that period envision highly automated airspace management systems and electrically powered vehicles. AAM concepts also anticipate limited human roles. The goal of limiting the human role is to minimize the potential for misadventures, yet how the human role is limited needs to be carefully considered in order to also preserve the potential for human successes. The field of resilience engineering (RE) focuses on how systems can change in order to seize an opportunity or withstand an unforeseen challenge. RE …


Reports Of Resilient Performance: Investigating Operators’ Descriptions Of Safety-Producing Behaviors In The Aviation Safety Reporting System, Jolene Feldman, Immanuel Barshi, Brian Smith, Bryan Matthews May 2021

Reports Of Resilient Performance: Investigating Operators’ Descriptions Of Safety-Producing Behaviors In The Aviation Safety Reporting System, Jolene Feldman, Immanuel Barshi, Brian Smith, Bryan Matthews

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

While many existing taxonomies and frameworks provide a common vocabulary for describing how human operators fail in the context of sociotechnical systems, at present, there is no common vocabulary to describe how humans succeed. Such a framework would facilitate systematically collecting and analyzing data on how human performance can produce safety, not just how it can reduce safety. One potentially rich source of currently available information for exploring desired performance is the reports submitted to NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). These de-identified, confidential, and voluntary narrative reports are submitted by pilots, controllers, ground operators, and others within aviation operations. …


Display Design To Avoid And Mitigate Limit Cycle Oscillations On The F-16c, David Feibus May 2021

Display Design To Avoid And Mitigate Limit Cycle Oscillations On The F-16c, David Feibus

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

The U.S. Air Force F-16C’s flight envelope is defined by its external weapon stores configuration, and the employment of some munitions at certain speeds can cause the F-16 to enter a flutter-like state called Limit Cycle Oscillations (LCO). In LCO, the pilot experiences turbulent vibrations reducing their fine motor control. The current research attempted to help pilots anticipate an LCO-susceptible configuration by projecting the consequences of employing certain munitions. It was hypothesized that the new displays would result in fewer flight envelope violations, fewer LCO occurrences, and increased situation awareness. The results show that there are situation awareness benefits if …


Observing On-Demand Aircrew Transitioning From Paper To Electronic, Charla L. Long, Kevin M. Gildea May 2021

Observing On-Demand Aircrew Transitioning From Paper To Electronic, Charla L. Long, Kevin M. Gildea

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

The introduction of electronic flight bags (EFBs) for flight crew use has reduced the overall workload, except in some situations if not designed properly or employed effectively. Researchers from the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) undertook an observational study combined with crew interviews to assess overall flight crew operations including flight demands, procedures, and the methods the crews used to integrate EFBs into all aspects of their flights from preflight planning to postflight debrief. The researchers also examined the EFB applications (apps) themselves for general usability and developed some recommendations for ways EFB use in operations could be improved. General …


Thinking Outside The Box: The Human Role In Increasingly Automated Aviation Systems, Joel Lachter, Alan Hobbs, Jon Holbrook May 2021

Thinking Outside The Box: The Human Role In Increasingly Automated Aviation Systems, Joel Lachter, Alan Hobbs, Jon Holbrook

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Rapid advances in automation are enabling transport systems to operate in an increasingly autonomous manner. From time to time, these systems encounter operational conditions that fall outside a “competency box” of scenarios and environments for which the system was designed. Human operators add resilience because they can see and act outside the automation’s competency box. Advanced aviation concepts envision fleets of highly automated air vehicles providing on-demand transport for people and goods. We examine one such concept, Urban Air Moblity [sic] (UAM) and explore how humans can best be incorporated to maintain resilience. A human-autonomy teaming approach is suggested.


Evaluating The Use Of High-Fidelity Simulator Research Methods To Study Airline Flight Crew Resilience, Chad L. Stephens, Lawrence J. Prinzel, Daniel Kiggins, Kathryn Ballard, Jon Holbrook May 2021

Evaluating The Use Of High-Fidelity Simulator Research Methods To Study Airline Flight Crew Resilience, Chad L. Stephens, Lawrence J. Prinzel, Daniel Kiggins, Kathryn Ballard, Jon Holbrook

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

As it evolves, aviation will continue to require integration of a wide range of safety systems and practices, some of which are already in place and others that are yet to be developed. New concepts in system safety thinking have emerged to consider not only what may go wrong, but also what can be learned when things go right during commercial flight operations. Taken together, these complementary perspectives form a more comprehensive approach to system safety thinking that can help to recognize and preserve the resilient performance capabilities currently provided by humans. A need exists, however, for research methods to …


How Do Different Knowledge Frameworks Help Us Learn From Aviation Line Observations?, Randall J. Mumaw, Dorrit Billman, Jon Holbrook May 2021

How Do Different Knowledge Frameworks Help Us Learn From Aviation Line Observations?, Randall J. Mumaw, Dorrit Billman, Jon Holbrook

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2021

Human performance includes actions that increase safety, as well as actions that can reduce safety. Ensuring safety in complex dynamic operations like commercial aviation depends on the ability to institute appropriate responses based on what is learned from flightcrew performance and the contexts in which it occurs. To do this systemically at the organization level requires collecting data on flightcrew performance, developing effective approaches to analyzing those data, and understanding how to translate what has been learned into policies, procedures, and practice. Systematic observation of front-line operators is a vital source of human performance data. Much has been learned from …