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Consumer Trust Ratings After An Airline Accident: An Affective Perspective, Scott R. Winter, Stephen Rice, Ismael Cremer, Rian Mehta Jan 2015

Consumer Trust Ratings After An Airline Accident: An Affective Perspective, Scott R. Winter, Stephen Rice, Ismael Cremer, Rian Mehta

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Fortunately airline accidents are rare; however when one occurs it usually results in widespread media attention. The purpose of this study was to examine how consumers’ trust ratings were impacted when one airline suffered an accident. The findings indicate that System Wide Trust (SWT) theory applies resulting in a trust reduction for all airlines, not just the accident airline. Affect was shown to act as a mediator in only three of the cases, which suggest that consumer’s responses may not be strongly influenced by emotions. Practical implications and limitations of this study are provided.


Concept Of Flight Instructor Assistance In Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Using Pilot Trainee’S Workload Determination, Felix Maiwald, Axel Schulte Jan 2015

Concept Of Flight Instructor Assistance In Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Using Pilot Trainee’S Workload Determination, Felix Maiwald, Axel Schulte

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This article focuses on the development of a tool chain to support the training of helicopter rescue pilots. The aim is to support the training instructor for comprehensible, objective and reliable assessment of the mental state of pilot trainees. Hence this article investigates a method for on-line estimating the mental workload of the pilot and his free/needed cognitive and sensorimotor resources during flight. We further provide a description of the methodological approach and details on the implemented prototype of a flight instructor station as part of our research simulator. In a first simulator study with four subjects the system has …


Anticipatorily Controlled Top-Down Processes Influence The Impact Of Coriolis Effects, Christine M. Talker, K. Wolfgang Kallus Jan 2015

Anticipatorily Controlled Top-Down Processes Influence The Impact Of Coriolis Effects, Christine M. Talker, K. Wolfgang Kallus

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

The impact of the vestibular-induced Coriolis illusion becomes apparent in spatial disorientation and symptoms of motion sickness. Empirical data indicated that anticipatory processes, evolved by experience, influence the sensation of Coriolis illusion. We measured subjective well-being and stress responses of 13 experienced pilots and 13 non-pilots in order to study the influence of anticipatorily controlled top-down attention on the impact of Coriolis effects and to examine the role of experience. Subjective data and psychophysiological data (EDA, ECG) were recorded, reflecting the underlying psychological processes involved. Participants distracted by doing a reaction test (experimental group) gave higher drowsiness ratings and higher …


Visual Search And Target Selection Using A Bounded Optimal Model Of State Estimation & Control, Brandon S. Perelman, Christopher W. Myers Jan 2015

Visual Search And Target Selection Using A Bounded Optimal Model Of State Estimation & Control, Brandon S. Perelman, Christopher W. Myers

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Visual attention and motor control are tightly coupled in domains requiring a human operator to interact with a visual interface. Here, we integrate a boundedly optimal visual attention model with two separate motor control models and compare the predictions made by these models against perceptual and motor data collected from human subjects engaged in a parafoveal detection task. The results indicate that humans use an optimal motor control policy limited by precision constraints – humans executed ballistic movements using near-optimal velocity (i.e., bang-bang control), but imprecision in those movements often caused participants to overshoot their targets, necessitating corrective action. Motor …


An Ecological Approach To The Supervisory Control Of Uav Swarms, Christian Fuchs, Clark Borst, Guido De Croon, Rene Van Paassen, Max Mulder Jan 2015

An Ecological Approach To The Supervisory Control Of Uav Swarms, Christian Fuchs, Clark Borst, Guido De Croon, Rene Van Paassen, Max Mulder

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Advances in miniaturized computer technology have made it possible for a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to complete its mission autonomously. This also sparked interest in having swarms of UAVs that are cooperating as a team on a single mission. The level of automation involved in the control of UAVswarms will also change the role of the human operator. That is, instead of manually controlling the movements of the individual UAVs, the system operator will need to perform higher-level mission management tasks. However, most ground control stations are still tailored to the control of single UAVs by portraying raw flight …


Developing Quantitative Air Traffic Risk-Benefit Pathways For Class Delta Airports: Improving Small Tower Operations, Katherine A. Berry, Michael W. Sawyer, Jordan Hinson Jan 2015

Developing Quantitative Air Traffic Risk-Benefit Pathways For Class Delta Airports: Improving Small Tower Operations, Katherine A. Berry, Michael W. Sawyer, Jordan Hinson

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

The primary responsibility of an Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) controller is to prevent collisions between aircraft and other hazards on the surface and in the immediate vicinity. The safety service provided by controllers at towers with larger operations greatly exceeds the costs of establishing those towers. As the number of operations decreases, the costs of operating the tower may begin to outweigh the benefits of staffing the tower. Safety event reports describing instances where an ATCT controller provided a service that reduced the consequences of the event were collected. The reports were classified to identify latent factors, causal factors, …


Impact Of Nextgen On National Airspace Actors, Kelley J. Krokos, Michael W. Sawyer, Katherine A. Berry Jan 2015

Impact Of Nextgen On National Airspace Actors, Kelley J. Krokos, Michael W. Sawyer, Katherine A. Berry

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is executing a transformation of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). This paper presents two research efforts related to understanding and analyzing the effects of planned NextGen changes across NAS actors. American Institutes for Research is completing a Strategic Job Analysis and Strategic Training Needs Analysis of two NAS actors. The results are intended to provide recommendations to selection and training requirements necessary to support NextGen implementation. Fort Hill Group is building Human-System Interaction Models (HSIMs) that identify the human-system interactions affected by planned changes …


Promoting Aviation Safety In Africa: Analysis Of Air Accidents In The Region Between 2004 And 2013, Jacob Joshua Shila, Amadou Anne Jan 2015

Promoting Aviation Safety In Africa: Analysis Of Air Accidents In The Region Between 2004 And 2013, Jacob Joshua Shila, Amadou Anne

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

The international air traffic in the Africa region is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.1% between 2012 and 2032. The air transport industry in the region has supported about 6.9 million jobs, contributed about $ 67.8 million in economic activity, and about $ 80.5 million in GDP. However, the African continent was ranked last in the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program (USOAP) report for the year 2012. Efforts by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), airlines, and governments, and other institutions are currently underway to promote aviation safety. Aviation safety implementation in the Africa region is …


Tactile Cueing Strategies To Convey Aircraft Motion Or Warn Of Collision, Ben D. Lawson, Roger C. Cholewiak, J. Christopher Brill, Angus H. Rupert, Linda-Brooke I. Thompson Jan 2015

Tactile Cueing Strategies To Convey Aircraft Motion Or Warn Of Collision, Ben D. Lawson, Roger C. Cholewiak, J. Christopher Brill, Angus H. Rupert, Linda-Brooke I. Thompson

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This report highlights five current vibrotactile display technologies for conveying aircraft motion or approach to obstacles or waypoints, including: 1) a simple on/off vibration cue that activates when a designated position is reached; 2) vibrations whose on-off pulse rate increases as the vehicle moves faster; 3) vibrations whose fundamental frequency rises to cue the approach of an object; 4) vibrations whose body site of spatial cueing signals self-motion in a manner analogous to tactile cues during sliding along the ground; 5) vibrations whose body site of cueing expands in a manner analogous to visual looming cues. The advantages and limitations …


Audiotactile Aids For Improving Pilot Situation Awareness, J. Christopher Brill, Ben D. Lawson, Angus H. Rupert Jan 2015

Audiotactile Aids For Improving Pilot Situation Awareness, J. Christopher Brill, Ben D. Lawson, Angus H. Rupert

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Up to one-third of all aircraft mishaps are attributable to spatial disorientation (SD), costing lives and millions of dollars. One potential solution is to provide supplementary sensory cues to help improve pilots’ situation awareness (SA). Given existing demands on the pilot’s visual system, audition and touch present the greatest potential for success. However, accurate 3D audio perception may be problematic in noisy operational environments. To determine the effects, participants performed an azimuth cue localization task while listening to 90 dB helicopter noise. Cue modalities conditions included 3D audio, vibrotactile, and audiotactile. Accuracy was better and response times were significantly faster …


Effects Of Workload On Measures Of Sustained Attention During A Flight Simulator Night Mission, Hans-Juergen Hoermann, Patrick Gontar, Andreas Haslbeck Jan 2015

Effects Of Workload On Measures Of Sustained Attention During A Flight Simulator Night Mission, Hans-Juergen Hoermann, Patrick Gontar, Andreas Haslbeck

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

N=60 commercial airline pilots holding valid ATPLs flew a manual ILS approach following a weather induced missed approach during a night mission in full flight simulators. Measures of subjective fatigue, sustained attention, and the NASA Taskload Index were collected before and after the mission. In addition, sleep history data were available covering three days prior to the simulator. Both subjective and objective measures of fatigue showed significant ascent over the three hours of the experimental procedure. While sleep history data and roster information were related to both the overall level of fatigue and to reaction times, pilots who experienced a …


Army Aviation Manned-Unmanned Teaming (Mum-T): Past, Present, And Future, Grant Taylor, Terry Turpin Jan 2015

Army Aviation Manned-Unmanned Teaming (Mum-T): Past, Present, And Future, Grant Taylor, Terry Turpin

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

As the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in military operations has increased, so too have their capabilities. One recently developed capability is the ability to operate in conjunction with traditional manned aircraft through a process called manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T), allowing manned aviators to benefit from the unique capabilities of UAS. This paper provides an introduction to the concept of MUM-T, describing the early stages of research and development, current MUM-T capabilities in fielded Army systems, and planned future development efforts to continue to advance the capability.


Optimizing Performance Of Trainees For Uas Manpower, Interface And Selection (Optumis): A Human Systems Integration (Hsi) Approach, Jennifer Pagan, Dr. Randy Astwood, Cdr Henry Phillips Jan 2015

Optimizing Performance Of Trainees For Uas Manpower, Interface And Selection (Optumis): A Human Systems Integration (Hsi) Approach, Jennifer Pagan, Dr. Randy Astwood, Cdr Henry Phillips

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) operations research by Williams (2004) found that platforms which employ winged aviators (e.g., Predator) have shown higher mishaps than those that select operators that are nonpilots (e.g., Shadow). One explanation may be negative training transfer from manned to unmanned platforms as operators are separated from the aircraft, thus depriving them of a range of sensory cues (McCarley & Wickens, 2007). Another explanation for higher Predator mishaps may be associated with poor Ground Control Station (GCS) design. These varying explanations for differences in mishap rates across platforms indicate the need to address a number of Human System …


Follow-Up Examination Of Simulator-Based Training Effectiveness, Maxine Lubner, Andrew R. Dattel, Deb Henneberry, Sharon Devivo Jan 2015

Follow-Up Examination Of Simulator-Based Training Effectiveness, Maxine Lubner, Andrew R. Dattel, Deb Henneberry, Sharon Devivo

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

A descriptive examination of the effectiveness of a simulator-based training program for pilots was conducted. Of 55 students of varying backgrounds, but mostly with limited flight experience, 13 enrolled in an intensive, simulator-based flight training program. Within two years the remainder had enrolled in conventional collegiate flight training, supplemented with some simulator training. The students in the intensive program completed their FAA Private Pilot certificates in an average of 5 weeks (not including simulator time). Moreover, the intensive program group earned their private pilot’s certificate in statistically significantly fewer hours (M=46.03) than the conventional collegiate flight training group (M=76.06). The …


The Electrooculogram And A New Blink Detection Algorithm, Samantha L. Epling, Matt Middendorf, Michael Hoepf, Christina Gruenwald, Lucas Stork, Scott Galster Jan 2015

The Electrooculogram And A New Blink Detection Algorithm, Samantha L. Epling, Matt Middendorf, Michael Hoepf, Christina Gruenwald, Lucas Stork, Scott Galster

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Accurate and efficient real-time cognitive workload assessment has many important applications, and physiological monitoring has proven quite helpful with this assessment. One such physiological signal, the electrooculogram (EOG), can provide blink rate and blink duration measures. In a recent study, we developed and validated a robust blink detection algorithm based on the vertical EOG (VEOG). This algorithm does not require baseline data and is adaptive in the sense that it works for a wide variety of individuals without any experimenter adjustments. The performance of the algorithm is quantified using truth data based on video recordings. The algorithm produced blink rate …


Functional Complexity Failures And Automation Surprises: The Mysterious Case Of Controlled Flight Into Stall (Cfis), Lance Sherry, Robert Mauro Jan 2015

Functional Complexity Failures And Automation Surprises: The Mysterious Case Of Controlled Flight Into Stall (Cfis), Lance Sherry, Robert Mauro

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Nineteen modern airliner Loss of Control (LOC) accidents resulting in aerodynamic stalls were analyzed. These accidents involved structurally and mechanically sound aircraft decelerating through the 1.3VStall buffer to the stall airspeed - i.e. a Controlled Flight into Stall (CFIS). The analysis produced three main observations: First, the accidents were “functional complexity” failures -- the result of a complex sequence of behaviors of the automation functions. There were no consistent: failures that triggered the events (e.g. sensor failures), effects of triggering events on the automation (e.g. mode change), or commands issued by the automation (e.g. thrust setting). Second, the pilots were …


Evaluation Of An Eye Tracking-Based Assessment And Debrief Tool For Training Next Generation Multirole Tactical Aviation Skills, Meredith Carroll, Glenn Surpris, Greg Sidor, Winston Bennett Jr. Jan 2015

Evaluation Of An Eye Tracking-Based Assessment And Debrief Tool For Training Next Generation Multirole Tactical Aviation Skills, Meredith Carroll, Glenn Surpris, Greg Sidor, Winston Bennett Jr.

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

As tactical aircraft become increasingly complex, pilots’ cognitive resources will become increasingly strained, especially as more critical and multifaceted information is presented on Helmet Mounted Displays (HMDs). Therefore, it is critical to ensure training results in pilots learning optimal strategies for operating in this information-rich environment, including appropriate attention allocation between different dynamic, adjustable displays and efficient scan strategies. To achieve this, a performance assessment and debrief system was developed that incorporates eye tracking technology into an HMD-enabled multirole fighter simulation to capture and process gaze data to aid in diagnosing why a pilot error occurred. The system utilizes eye …


Modeling Task Prioritization Behaivors In A Time-Pressured Multitasking Environment, Takeaki Toma, Kenneth H. Funk Ii Jan 2015

Modeling Task Prioritization Behaivors In A Time-Pressured Multitasking Environment, Takeaki Toma, Kenneth H. Funk Ii

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Cockpit task management (CTM) theory is structurally consistent with cognitive multitasking models. Based on the CTM framework, it is hypothesized that aviation task prioritization behavior in human multitasking may be influenced by importance, urgency, performance status, salience, and workload of tasks in a cockpit. A middle fidelity flight simulation study was conducted to test the above hypotheses. Questionnaire data indicated that the perceived task importance, the perceived task urgency and the perceived task salience had significant relationships with the perceived task priority after taking the individual difference and flight situational difference into account. The perceived task priority was related to …


Open Source Devices For Human Factors Research, Kevin M. Gildea, Nelda J. Milburn Jan 2015

Open Source Devices For Human Factors Research, Kevin M. Gildea, Nelda J. Milburn

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

The availability of increasingly powerful and versatile open source software and hardware products continues to open new possibilities for the design and development of experimental devices. The declining cost of many proprietary software and hardware solutions has further increased the options available to researchers. These new capabilities have led to an increasing number of people engaging in design and development of devices for research and other purposes. Capabilities that were previously only available to well-funded engineering organizations are now accessible to individuals and small teams with limited resources. The formation and growth of local and online support communities have provided …


Physiological Indicators Of Workload In A Remotely Piloted Aircraft Simulation, Michael Hoepf, Matt Middendorf, Samantha Epling, Scott Galster Jan 2015

Physiological Indicators Of Workload In A Remotely Piloted Aircraft Simulation, Michael Hoepf, Matt Middendorf, Samantha Epling, Scott Galster

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Toward preventing performance decrements associated with mental overload in remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) operations, the current research investigated the feasibility of using physiological measures to assess cognitive workload. Two RPA operators were interviewed to identify factors that impact workload in target tracking missions. Performance, subjective workload, cortical, cardiac and eye data were collected. One cardiac and several eye measures were sensitive to changes in workload as evidenced by performance and subjective workload data. Potential future applications of this research include closed loop systems that employ advanced augmentation strategies, such as adaptive automation. Thus, by identifying physiological measures well suited for …


Exploring The Mathematical Predictability Of The Advanced Aircraft Training Climate, Preven Naidoo Jan 2015

Exploring The Mathematical Predictability Of The Advanced Aircraft Training Climate, Preven Naidoo

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Effective pilot training on advanced aircraft is vital in ensuring flight safety, and positive perceptions of the training climate can contribute to the success of the training. Hypothetically, characteristics of the trainee can predict the training climate. Thus far, predictive models have provided little information about the mental viscosity or psychological comfort of the processes of pilot training. The purpose of this study was to develop a mathematical model to predict the psychological comfort of the organisational environment for advanced aircraft pilot transition training using a dichotomous categorical criterion. A predictive model of the phenomena was contemplated from a non-parametric …


Inverting The Human/Automation Equation To Support Situation Awareness And Prevent Loss Of Control, Alez Kirlik, Kasey Ackerman, Ben Seefeldt, Enric Xargay, Donald Talleur, Ronald Carbonari, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, Anna Trujillo, Irene Gregory Jan 2015

Inverting The Human/Automation Equation To Support Situation Awareness And Prevent Loss Of Control, Alez Kirlik, Kasey Ackerman, Ben Seefeldt, Enric Xargay, Donald Talleur, Ronald Carbonari, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, Anna Trujillo, Irene Gregory

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Despite the contributions of automation to aviation safety and efficiency, the problems associated with technology-centered rather than human-centered automation are well known: decreased pilot situation awareness, deterioration of manual piloting skills, difficulties pilots experience when trying to jump into the loop when needed, and so forth. We present a prototype architecture for human-automation interaction that reverses their traditional roles: in our design, the automation "looks over the shoulder" of the pilot and jumps into the loop when needed rather than the other way around to prevent aircraft loss-of-control (LoC). The architecture exploits the LoC prevention algorithm proposed by Wilborn and …


Reliability Of Instructor Pilots' Non-Technical Skills Ratings, Patrick Gontar, Hans-Juergen Hoermann Jan 2015

Reliability Of Instructor Pilots' Non-Technical Skills Ratings, Patrick Gontar, Hans-Juergen Hoermann

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This paper presents the results of different methods to assess reliability when instructor pilots rate pilots regarding their non-technical skills (NOTECHS). In preparation for a major inter-rater reliability study, this pretest analyzes the rating behavior of two instructor pilots during a full-flight simulator mission. Besides inter-rater reliability and test-retest reliability, the pilots’ self-rating (n =12) and the instructors’ point of view is analyzed. Results indicate a wide spread from poor to excellent reliabilities as a function of the different rating dimensions. Regarding inter-rater reliability, it is found that non-technical skills are rated more reliably under high workload conditions than under …


Individual Problem Representations In Distributed Work, Alicia Fernandes, Philip J. Smith, Ken Durham, Mark Evans Jan 2015

Individual Problem Representations In Distributed Work, Alicia Fernandes, Philip J. Smith, Ken Durham, Mark Evans

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Human-machine interfaces in distributed work systems provide external problem representations that activate the cognitive processes people use to perform their work. Appropriate design of such representations is an important factor in supporting complex work. In air and surface traffic management, problems are typically framed according to airspace constraints even for practitioners whose domain is the airport surface. Constraints are passed from the en route and terminal domains to the surface in the form of airspace constraints, with the displays available to Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) personnel communicating these constraints in airspace terms. However, ATCT personnel use a different mental …


Uas In The Nas Air Traffic Controller Acceptability Study-1: The Effects Of Horizontal Miss Distances On Simulated Uas And Manned Aircraft Encounters, Rania W. Ghatas, James R. Comstock Jr., Maria C. Consiglio, James P. Chamberlain, Keith D. Hoffler Jan 2015

Uas In The Nas Air Traffic Controller Acceptability Study-1: The Effects Of Horizontal Miss Distances On Simulated Uas And Manned Aircraft Encounters, Rania W. Ghatas, James R. Comstock Jr., Maria C. Consiglio, James P. Chamberlain, Keith D. Hoffler

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This study examined air traffic controller acceptability ratings based on the effects of differing horizontal miss distances (HMDs) for encounters between UAS and manned aircraft. In a simulation of the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) East-side airspace, the CAS-1 experiment at NASA Langley Research Center enlisted fourteen recently retired DFW air traffic controllers to rate well-clear volumes based on differing HMDs that ranged from 0.5 NM to 3.0 NM. The controllers were tasked with rating these HMDs from “too small” to “too excessive” on a defined, 1-5, scale and whether these distances caused any disruptions to the controller and/or to the surrounding …


Computational Simulation Of Authority-Responsibility Mismatches In Air-Ground Function Allocation, Martijn Ijtsma, Amy R. Pritchett, Raunak P. Bhattacharyya Jan 2015

Computational Simulation Of Authority-Responsibility Mismatches In Air-Ground Function Allocation, Martijn Ijtsma, Amy R. Pritchett, Raunak P. Bhattacharyya

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Authority-responsibility mismatches are created when one agent is authorized (has authority) to perform an activity, but a different agent is responsible for its outcome. An authority-responsibility mismatch demands monitoring by the responsible agent that itself requires additional information transfer and taskload. This paper demonstrates a computational simulation methodology that identifies when mismatches will occur in complex, multi-agent aviation operations, and their implications for information transfer between agents and task demands on each agent. A case study examines 25 authority and responsibility allocations in a NextGen/SESAR scenario in a terminal area where authority and responsibility for activities involving optimal profile descents, …


Development Of The Air Traffic Control Tower Alerts Standard, Edmundo A. Sierra Jr., Michael Buckley Jan 2015

Development Of The Air Traffic Control Tower Alerts Standard, Edmundo A. Sierra Jr., Michael Buckley

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

FAA HF-STD-008 Air Traffic Control Tower Alerts Standard specifies functional requirements, alarm and alert human interaction characteristics, and threshold levels in systems that use an alert mechanism to capture human attention in air traffic control tower environments. FAA HF-STD-008 was developed to address a shortfall in the general criteria for alerts found in FAA HF-STD-001 Human Factors Design Standard. FAA-HF-STD-008 was developed in three phases: literature review and draft development, subject matter expert working group review and development, and stakeholder comment and adjudication. The results of the work include specific requirements for alerts and additional evidence of a repeatable human …


Contribution Of Multimethodology To Human Factors In Air Navigation Systems, Lisia Maria Espinola Da Silva Pacheco Cabral, Marcos Pereira Jan 2015

Contribution Of Multimethodology To Human Factors In Air Navigation Systems, Lisia Maria Espinola Da Silva Pacheco Cabral, Marcos Pereira

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This article presents a general view of a post-graduation study developed from 2011 to 2014 into some civil Air Navigation contexts of a brazilian public organization, to promote System and Rational Thinking, and Metagovernance, aiming at structuring, understanding and monitoring problems prone to variability, dynamics and unpredictability, to contribute to minimum risks management and opportunities of changes in real work. The study was developed to support TRM (Team Resources Management) behavior abilities, introduced as a Program since 2009, and adopted: a qualitative and collective method;Multimethodology as a predictive methodology, in which Conceptual Map was the central instrument, based on Soft …


Psychological Aspects Of The Organization Of Information At The Instructor’S Flight Simulator Workplace, Tetiana Bondareva Jan 2015

Psychological Aspects Of The Organization Of Information At The Instructor’S Flight Simulator Workplace, Tetiana Bondareva

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

This Paper presents a critical analysis of the classical procedure of training pilots on Full Flight Simulators (FFS), and developed new version of the procedure of instructor’s actions during simulator training. The developed procedure will change an instructor’s position as person, who sets parameters before and during performing exercise, to a person as involved participant, who is waiting for a forthcoming training flight circumstances together with the crew. This developed procedure implies a rearrangement of specific operations from the instructor on the software, and also the availability of an alternative monitor, on which the most significant events (selected for specific …


Learning Of Location-Identity Bindings: Development Of Level 1 Situation Awareness In An Air Traffic Control-Like Task, Alexander Nalbandian, Esa Rantanen Jan 2015

Learning Of Location-Identity Bindings: Development Of Level 1 Situation Awareness In An Air Traffic Control-Like Task, Alexander Nalbandian, Esa Rantanen

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2015

Knowing “what is where” is essential to human perception and performance. This knowledge corresponds to the concept of Situation Awareness (SA), specifically Level 1 SA. The underlying research paradigm concerns tracking of identical objects moving on a screen (Multiple Object Tracking, MOT). This method has been useful to investigate the fundamentals of visual tracking, but it lacks a connection to real-world scenarios. In another paradigm, objects tracked have unique identities (Multiple Identity Tracking, MIT) requiring a combination of peripheral and focal perception in tracking. This model has been used to examine air traffic controllers’ SA. This paper will report results …