Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Other Psychiatry and Psychology Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 961 - 990 of 2048

Full-Text Articles in Other Psychiatry and Psychology

Gender Role Prescriptions And Apologies, Molly Fuller Jan 2017

Gender Role Prescriptions And Apologies, Molly Fuller

ETD Archive

Malpractice litigations in the medical field are common occurrences. In fact, across specialties, 7.4% of physicians annually have a malpractice claim. Malpractice risk exists for all physicians regardless of their medical training, gender, specialization, or severity of damage caused to patients. Data from nearly 20 years of research revealed that male physicians face malpractice claims at a significantly higher rate than female physicians, but that female physicians pay more in malpractice settlements than their male counterparts. To date, we have found no research that investigates why this gender discrepancy among malpractice settlements occurs. This study examines Social Role Theory and …

Go to article

Virtual Reality And 2d Interfaces: A Comparison Of Visual Search Task Performance, Matthew Brown, Kathleen Van Benthem, James Howell, Jonathan Poisson, Scott Arburthnot, Chris Herdman Jan 2017

Virtual Reality And 2d Interfaces: A Comparison Of Visual Search Task Performance, Matthew Brown, Kathleen Van Benthem, James Howell, Jonathan Poisson, Scott Arburthnot, Chris Herdman

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Airborne surveillance operations present challenging environments for tactical operators and for the technologies that support these activities. Information from multiple sources is currently presented on 2D displays, but the influx of data hasmade it difficult to represent this informationusing traditional technologies. Recent innovations in VR have laid the groundwork for a promising solution to this problem by allowing users to immerse themselves in 3D representations of the real worldwith embodied tracking capabilities. The present research examined thefeasibility of transitioning two common tactical operator tasks from a 2D to a 3D/VR user interface. Naive participants searchedfor targets amongst a set of …

Go to article

Does The Projected-Hand Illusion Help In Teleoperation?, Lloyd Wajon, M.M. (René) Van Paassen, David A. Abbink, Erwin Boer, Max Mulder Jan 2017

Does The Projected-Hand Illusion Help In Teleoperation?, Lloyd Wajon, M.M. (René) Van Paassen, David A. Abbink, Erwin Boer, Max Mulder

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

A body illusion, commonly known in the form of the “Rubber Hand Illusion”, is an illusion wherein visual inputs on an inanimate object and simultaneous tactile inputs on a part of the body lead to a situation where the inanimate object is identified as the body part. This study investigated the possibility of inducing a body illusion during a teleoperated reaching task, to see if this leads toincreased telepresence and improved accuracy. Three conditions were presented in random order; the Direct Control (DC) condition, where the participant’s hand is shown on the screen, the Projected Hand Illusion (PHI) condition, showing …

Go to article

A Pedagogical Approach To Teach Aviation Students How To Conduct Situation Awareness Research, Andrew R. Dattel, Andrey Babin, Tianhua Li, Ziyi Dong, Stephanie G. Fussell, Qianru Yang Jan 2017

A Pedagogical Approach To Teach Aviation Students How To Conduct Situation Awareness Research, Andrew R. Dattel, Andrey Babin, Tianhua Li, Ziyi Dong, Stephanie G. Fussell, Qianru Yang

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Situation awareness (SA) has been investigated in the aviation industry for decades and recently has become more prominent in other industries. For example, healthcare has experienced tremendous growth in SA research and training. Despite agreement among researchers that SA is important for performance and safety in complex domains, less agreement exists for defining and measuring SA. Certain industries (e.g., aviation, healthcare, process control operations) often have specific methods on how to approach SA. These approaches of introducing employees and students to SA in a specific context may inadvertently limit their full appreciation and understanding of this construct.

Go to article

Pegasas: Weather Technology In The Cockpit, Ian Johnson, Geoff Whitehurst, Vladimir N. Risukhin, Lori J. Brown, William Rantz, Thomas K. Ferris, Trey Roady, Carolina Rodriguez-Paras, Kathryn Tippey, Mel J. Futrell Jan 2017

Pegasas: Weather Technology In The Cockpit, Ian Johnson, Geoff Whitehurst, Vladimir N. Risukhin, Lori J. Brown, William Rantz, Thomas K. Ferris, Trey Roady, Carolina Rodriguez-Paras, Kathryn Tippey, Mel J. Futrell

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Research showsthat a high percentage of weather-related General Aviation (GA) accidents can be attributed to pilots flying into Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) without experience or appropriate certifications to safely operate beyond Visual Flight Rules (VFR). To makesafety-critical decisions, pilots oftenuse weather indication delivered on screens of portable electronic devices. This information often is obsolete with a latency up to20 minutes. Web-based experiential education modules, using a flight simulation system for demonstration of this weather indication latency, can potentially mitigate this problem.Modules will be designed to provide pilots with the ability to “experience” different weather phenomenaand will include tools to improve …

Go to article

Role Of Early Flying Performance In Pilot Training Tracks, Rana Ihara, Yumi Shibata, Yuko Aiba, Takenori Nomiyama, Asao Kobayashi Jan 2017

Role Of Early Flying Performance In Pilot Training Tracks, Rana Ihara, Yumi Shibata, Yuko Aiba, Takenori Nomiyama, Asao Kobayashi

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Early flying skills have been reported to strongly influence future flying skills. Few published studies have evaluated the comprehensive relationship among all flying training skills. This study evaluated three causal path models for flying skills that influenced flying performance rated by instructor pilots in five training phases. A covariance structure analysis showed that asequential model with a connection between the first and last phases was optimumfor representing flying training performance and skills. The flying skill acquired in the first training phase in a primary propeller aircraft influenced the last training skill in a fighter jet directly as well as indirectly. …

Go to article

Predicting Air Traffic Control Student Success And Improving Placement Through Skill Aptitude Testing, Kerry Huston, Keith Baldwin, Susan Schultheis Jan 2017

Predicting Air Traffic Control Student Success And Improving Placement Through Skill Aptitude Testing, Kerry Huston, Keith Baldwin, Susan Schultheis

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

In orderto improve Air Traffic Control (ATC) training efficiency and reduce the risk of student failure, the FAA needstools that can predict student success and inform student placement in training. By considering student aptitude, the FAA could reduce training costs by reducing student failure rates and transfers between facilities.In order to explore the benefits of early aptitude assessment, The MITRE Corporation (MITRE) created a prototype Radar Vectoring Aptitude Test designed to be administered to students before they begin their training to assess their aptitude for the skill of radar vectoring. The FAA office of Safety and Technical Training (AJI-2) in …

Go to article

Experimental Evaluation Of A Scalable Autonomy Concept For Cognitive Agents Aboard Reconnaissance Uavs, Georg Rudnick, Axel Schulte Jan 2017

Experimental Evaluation Of A Scalable Autonomy Concept For Cognitive Agents Aboard Reconnaissance Uavs, Georg Rudnick, Axel Schulte

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The concept of scalable autonomy with a guided access to lower automation levelsallows human UAV pilots to select the level of autonomy and enables the onboard automation to understand the pilot’s intent and offer support. To evaluate this concept, we conducted flightand simulationexperiments with German military personnel performing reconnaissance missions with a small UAV. We compared threeconfigurations. The high autonomy configuration completely prevents access to low-level functions. The naive approach configuration allows unrestricted access to all lower-level functions. The guided access configuration restricts access by forcing the pilot to communicate his intent first by entering mission tasks. As dependent variables, …

Go to article

Evaluating Spatial-Auditory Symbology For Improved Performance In Low-Fidelity Spatial Audio Displays, Griffin D. Romigh, Jose Villa, Jason Ayers Jan 2017

Evaluating Spatial-Auditory Symbology For Improved Performance In Low-Fidelity Spatial Audio Displays, Griffin D. Romigh, Jose Villa, Jason Ayers

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

For decades, spatial auditory displays have been considered to be a promising technology to help fight pilot disorientation and loss of SA. Inherently heads-up, these displays can provide time-critical spatial information to pilots about navigational targets, air and runway traffic, wingman location, and even the attitude of one’s aircraft without placing additional demands on the already over-tasked visual system. Unfortunately, currently-fielded auditory displays often suffer from poor spatial fidelity, particularly in elevation, due to their use of a one-size-fits-all (i.e., non-personalized) head-related transfer function (HRTF), the set offilters responsible for creating the spatial impression. The current study investigated the utility …

Go to article

Engineering For Humans: A New Extension To Systems Theoretic Process Analysis, Megan France, John Thomas Jan 2017

Engineering For Humans: A New Extension To Systems Theoretic Process Analysis, Megan France, John Thomas

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a new hazard analysis method developed at MIT to address a broad range of accident causal factors including dysfunctional interactions among components, design flaws, and requirements problems. This paper presentsa new extension for analyzing human interactions with automation and understanding why unsafe behaviors may appear appropriate in the operational context. The extension is demonstrated by applying it to pilot control of aircraft pitch control during stall recoveryusing scenarios from theAir France 447 accident

Go to article

An Interdisciplinary Approach To Evaluating U.S. Army Aviation Training, Martin S. Goodwin, Lauren Reinerman-Jones, Brian F. Goldiez, Robert A. Crapanzano Jan 2017

An Interdisciplinary Approach To Evaluating U.S. Army Aviation Training, Martin S. Goodwin, Lauren Reinerman-Jones, Brian F. Goldiez, Robert A. Crapanzano

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The U.S. Army is seeking to update and expand its use of simulation-based aviation trainingto address operational and fiscal concerns that are driving the need for more efficient training solutions.This has created a needto evaluate whether lower-cost, game-based simulations may potentially augment higher-cost, traditional simulation-based trainingfor specific aviation training tasks.However, current approaches to Training Effectiveness Evaluation (TEE) do not address the complete range of factors to adequately evaluate today’s increasingly sophisticated simulation training environments. Leveraging recent research and drawing from the tools and techniques of human performance assessment, instructional science, and phenomenology, an interdisciplinary approach to performing TEEs is introduced …

Go to article

Increasing Acceptance Of Haptic Feedback In Uav Teleoperations By Visualizing Force Fields, Victor Ho, Clark Borst, Rene Van Paassen, Max Mulder Jan 2017

Increasing Acceptance Of Haptic Feedback In Uav Teleoperations By Visualizing Force Fields, Victor Ho, Clark Borst, Rene Van Paassen, Max Mulder

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

In tele-operating an UAV, human operators fully rely on cameras to control thevehicle from a distance. To increase operator situation awareness and reduce workload, haptic feedback on the control stick has been developed which acts as an automatic collision avoidance system. A virtual force field surrounding the moving vehicle interacts with obstacles surrounding it,yielding repulsive forces on the stick that leadthe vehicle away from them. Albeit successful in significantly reducing the number of collisions,thehaptic interfacereceivedlow user acceptance ratings.Operators do not always fully understand the collision avoidance automation intentions, and they experience the haptic forces as intrusive. This paper discusses thedevelopment …

Go to article

Human Decision Making And Threat-Awareness Response During Emergency Aircraft Evacuations, Sarah Hubbard, Tim Ropp Jan 2017

Human Decision Making And Threat-Awareness Response During Emergency Aircraft Evacuations, Sarah Hubbard, Tim Ropp

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Aircraft emergencies requiring evacuation present unique safety challenges to both crew and passengers due to theconfined space and the speed at which fire, extreme heatand smoke propagate. In thisscenario, where a one or two second delay can literally determine survivability, rapid evacuation is paramount. Although evacuation capability is demonstrated through requiredand controlleddrillsfor aircraft certification, during a real emergencyhuman factorsaffect passenger decision making, in some cases resulting in the decisionto retrieve personal items during actual emergency evacuations. This may pose a significant threat to post-accident survivability. This research evaluates evacuation decision making and the associated impact on passenger exit flow, during …

Go to article

Work Dynamics Of Task Work And Teamwork In Function Allocation For Manned Spaceflight Operations, Martijn Ijtsma, Lanassie M. Ma, Amy R. Pritchett, Karen M. Feigh Jan 2017

Work Dynamics Of Task Work And Teamwork In Function Allocation For Manned Spaceflight Operations, Martijn Ijtsma, Lanassie M. Ma, Amy R. Pritchett, Karen M. Feigh

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

This paper proposes a methodology for human-robot function allocation for future manned space exploration missions that uses fast-time computational simulation. Dynamics of taskwork and teamwork often result in emergent work patterns that are difficult to predict from static analysis of function allocations. Wemodel thedynamics of taskwork and teamwork and demonstrate our approach through a case study that explores the function allocation design space for an on-orbit maintenancemissioninvolving humans and various robots. The case study highlightsthe method’s ability to predict possible concerns associated with limited availability of physical resources, action interdependencies, and communication requirements with possible time delays, and shows the …

Go to article

Empirically Evaluating Representational Aids For Target Tracking And Sensor Management, Taleri Hammack, Jared Neely, Terry Stanard, Jason Roll, John Flach Jan 2017

Empirically Evaluating Representational Aids For Target Tracking And Sensor Management, Taleri Hammack, Jared Neely, Terry Stanard, Jason Roll, John Flach

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Today, security officers at military and civilian installations are often required to track people and vehicles (targets) movingin a remote space using a distributed array of stationary security cameras. A pervasive tracking challenge is maintaining view of the target as it moves through the restricted fields of view of different cameras. The current research explores how different displaydesigns indicating camera fields of viewimpact the operator’s situation awareness of the next best camera to continue viewing a moving target. Three different interface displays(Full North-Up Map, Peripheral Display, and Track-Up Mini-Map) wereevaluated over four experimental conditions.While having all display types available was …

Go to article

Human Performance Assessment: Evaluation And Experimental Use Of Wearable Sensors For Brain Activity Measures, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Dale Richards, Lei Ding, Chen Ling, Ben Willems Jan 2017

Human Performance Assessment: Evaluation And Experimental Use Of Wearable Sensors For Brain Activity Measures, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Dale Richards, Lei Ding, Chen Ling, Ben Willems

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The emerging wearable human performance monitoring technologies can help evaluate the cognitive status and capacities of the crew in the cockpit as well as those operating ground control stations. Traditionally the use of behavioral measures and subjective metrics has been used to address cognitive factors associated with pilots or operators of safety critical systems. However, the advance in wearable physiologytechnologies could provide additional performance metrics directly driven from brain based measures, potentially validating subjective assessments and ultimately bringing us closer towardsmaintaining safe and effective performance. Furthermore, these techniques may also aidthe design and evaluation of new technologies that are being …

Go to article

Student Perceptions On The Usefulness Of Simulation-Based Training, Andrea M. Georgiou, Megan E. Wertheimer, Megan E. Snodgrass Jan 2017

Student Perceptions On The Usefulness Of Simulation-Based Training, Andrea M. Georgiou, Megan E. Wertheimer, Megan E. Snodgrass

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The NASA Flight Operations Center Unified Simulation (FOCUS) lab is a high-fidelity simulation of an airline operations center. Its purpose is to train senior aerospace students to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members in a highly interdependent environment that mirrors the airline industry. Data wascollected from the participants on their perceptions and the lessons learned from running the lab. These results were analyzed across elevensemestersover the last five years. Specifically,the quantitative data captured student perceptions about whether the lab was helpful in preparing them for their future job demands. The qualitative questions assessed their most important lessons learned, the …

Go to article

Toward Identifying Risk In Operational Performance Of Atc Procedures, Paul Krois, Julia Pounds Jan 2017

Toward Identifying Risk In Operational Performance Of Atc Procedures, Paul Krois, Julia Pounds

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Managing operationalperformance to reduce risk in the execution of air traffic control (ATC) procedures depends on understanding human performance in relation to patterns established in procedures. Procedures specify performance requirements meant to minimize unintended variation that is outside expected performance criteria and tolerances.We define human performance risk as unintended variation outside theenvelope of applicable procedures.

Go to article

The Effect Of Surprise On Upset Recovery Performance, Annemarie Landman, Eric L. Groen, M.M. (René) Van Paassen, Adelbert W. Bronkhorst, Max Mulder Jan 2017

The Effect Of Surprise On Upset Recovery Performance, Annemarie Landman, Eric L. Groen, M.M. (René) Van Paassen, Adelbert W. Bronkhorst, Max Mulder

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Introducing the element of surprise is one of the main challenges in simulator training of in-flight emergencies. In this simulator study, we investigated the differences in performance betweenpredictable and surprising circumstances, in order to obtaininsight into the transferof training between predictable training settings and surprising circumstances in operational practice. This was done bytestingtwenty airline pilots who recovered froman aerodynamic stall in two conditions: one anticipationcondition and one surprise condition. All pilots practiced beforehand using predictable, or non-surprising scenarios. The results show that pilots had significantly more difficulties in adhering to components of the FAA-commissioned recovery template in the surprise condition …

Go to article

A Study Of Accidents And Incidents Of Landing On Wrong Runways And Wrong Airports, Linfeng Jin, Edmund Lo Jan 2017

A Study Of Accidents And Incidents Of Landing On Wrong Runways And Wrong Airports, Linfeng Jin, Edmund Lo

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

This paper addresses the landings on wrong runways/ at wrong airports happened between 03/26/1992 and 05/08/2012. The visibility, intended landing runway heading, accident landing runway heading, pilots’ flight hours, and the ages of those pilots are studied to test whether they have correlationswith the number of personnel injury, the number of personneldeath, and the degrees of aircraft damage. Some significantfindings are: the most likely angular difference between the supposed landing runwayheadings and wrong runway headings among wrong runway/airport landingsis 180 degrees,and there is a weaknegative correlation between aircraft damage and pilot flight hours. All the data used in the paper …

Go to article

Is Rho The Key To Hazardous Weather Avoidance?, William R. Knecht Jan 2017

Is Rho The Key To Hazardous Weather Avoidance?, William R. Knecht

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Current in-cockpit looping Next-Generation Radar (NEXRAD) is inadequate to maintain safe (20 nm) aircraft separation from heavy weather (> 40 dBZ reflectivity). This assertion issupported by mathematical information analysis and an empirical study (Knecht, 2016), as well as numerous previous empirical studies. The current work revisitsthe ecological analysis by examining the putative affordance (rho) specifying when weather-avoidance maneuver should begin, as suggested by General Tau Theory (Lee, 2009).With“gapdefined as the distance between the on-screen aircraft icon and the weather hazard, is specified by the ratio ((dg/dt)/g)(t), the instantaneous gap contraction rate divided by the instantaneous gap size. In current …

Go to article

A Case Study Using The Human Factors Analysis And Classification System Framework, Flavio A.C. Mendonca Ph.D., Chenyu Huang Ph.D., Julius Keller Ph.D. Jan 2017

A Case Study Using The Human Factors Analysis And Classification System Framework, Flavio A.C. Mendonca Ph.D., Chenyu Huang Ph.D., Julius Keller Ph.D.

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Aircraft accidents are generally the end result of a number of latent conditions arising in the organizational and managerial sectors. These conditions frequently permit or even motivatethe unsafe acts by the flight crew. The Human Factors Analysis and ClassificationSystem (HFACS) is a system safety tool for the investigation and analysis of underlying human causal factors in aircraft accidents. Using the HFACS framework, four researchers classified the human factors identified by the Brazilian Aeronautical AccidentsInvestigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) during the investigation of a mishap(PR-AFA) that happened in Brazil in 2014. CENIPA argued that errors and violations by both pilots contributed …

Go to article

Usaf Spatial Disorientation Prevention: A Meta-Analytical Human Systems Integration Perspective, Patrick O'Neil, Booz Allen Hamilton, Michael Miller Jan 2017

Usaf Spatial Disorientation Prevention: A Meta-Analytical Human Systems Integration Perspective, Patrick O'Neil, Booz Allen Hamilton, Michael Miller

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Human Systems Integration involvesthe systematic consideration of tradeoffs in system structure or behavior, which affect sevenhuman-centered domains to optimize total system performance and life cycle cost.All too often, HSI is overlooked or poorly practiced, despite the specific directive within DoDI 5000.02 for program managers to plan for and conduct HSI. In the worst of cases, poor consideration of human capabilitiesandlimitations leads to errors, mishaps, and death or serious injury. One such human limitation in aviation is the inability of the pilot to maintain proper spatial orientationduring flight,asmismatches between the stimuli present during flight create an erroneous perception of aircraft attitude …

Go to article

Understanding Pilots’ Explanations Of Automation Surprises, Robert Mauro, Loukia Loukopoulou, Julia Trippe Jan 2017

Understanding Pilots’ Explanations Of Automation Surprises, Robert Mauro, Loukia Loukopoulou, Julia Trippe

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Automation surprise may result from inadequate or mistaken “mental models” of the automation (Sarter and Woods, 1995). To study pilots’ mental models of their automation, 202 airline pilots were asked to explain five different events involving unexpected behaviors of aircraft automation. Pilots’ abilities to correctly explain the behavior of the automation differed systematically across the scenarios. The number of complete and correct responses varied from 19% to 86%, depending on the scenario. As the complexity of the automation increased, understanding decreased. Performance on the scenarios was not related to flight experience, automation experience, or source of automation training. But pilots’ …

Go to article

Operationalizing The Definition Of Risk As Variability, Julia Pounds, Paul Krois, Barry C. Davis, Melissa Wishy Jan 2017

Operationalizing The Definition Of Risk As Variability, Julia Pounds, Paul Krois, Barry C. Davis, Melissa Wishy

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Maintaining safety requires acknowledgingrisk. However, one’s definition of risk can depend on whether the word is being used in everyday conversation or by safety practitioners or by domain experts. Not having a commonly agreed-upon definition poses problems for those charged with identifying, reducing, and communicating about risk. In an effort to standardize the definition, the International Organization for Standardization defined risk simply as the effect of uncertainty on objectives. Still, this general definition lacks enough specificity to describe uncertainty’s positive or negative effects. Relevant information can reduce uncertainty’s potential effects if it’s not ambiguous, unreliable, incomplete, or unavailable.

Go to article

Taking A Closer Look At Flight Crew Handling Of Complex Failures – Ten Case Studies, J. P. Reitsma, L. Fucke, C. Borst, M.M. Van Paassen Jan 2017

Taking A Closer Look At Flight Crew Handling Of Complex Failures – Ten Case Studies, J. P. Reitsma, L. Fucke, C. Borst, M.M. Van Paassen

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Non-normalevents,inparticularsystemfailureswithseriousoperationalimpact arerareinflightoperations.Theseeventsarenotalwayseasytohandle by flight crews.Theaimoftheperformedstudyisto determine whereinthisprocess potential issuesmaylie.Tenincidentreportsarestudied using a newly developed operationalissueanalysisframework.Theframeworkisusedtodetermine whetherandhowthecurrentinterfacescommunicatetheinitialfunctionalimpact andfunctionalimpactdelayedintime.Additionally, resultsfrompilotinterviews arepresentedwhichidentifiedthreephasesofnon-normaleventhandling:fault detection,faultmanagementandstrategic planning. Analysisofthetencases showsthatcurrentalertsystemsaremainly supporting thefirsttwophaseswhile thestrategic planning phase, requiring higherlevelfunctionalinformation integratedintotheoperationalcontextaswellasfailureimpactlaterintime,is relyingalmostentirelyonpilot knowledge andreasoning.

Go to article

Investigating Pilot’S Decision Making When Facing An Unstabilized Approach: An Eye-Tracking Study, Maxime Reynal, Frank Rister, Sebastien Scannella, Christopher Wickens, Frederic Hehais Jan 2017

Investigating Pilot’S Decision Making When Facing An Unstabilized Approach: An Eye-Tracking Study, Maxime Reynal, Frank Rister, Sebastien Scannella, Christopher Wickens, Frederic Hehais

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Unstabilized approach has been identified to be a major causal factor of approach-and-landing accidents (e.g. off-runway touchdowns, hard landing, tail-strikes, etc).We conducted an experimentin order to analyze pilots’ performance during such approaches. Ten type-rated, commercial pilots flew each in a B737 full-flight simulator during anunstabilizedapproach at Hamburg airport. The Pilot Flyings’ (PF) eye gazes were collected. The results revealed that half of the pilots persisted in an erroneous landing decision. These latter pilots had higher dwell time on the attitude indicator/flight director whereas the group of pilots who perfomed the go-around exhibited more fixations on the navigation display prior to …

Go to article

A Trend Analysis Of Human Factors Issues In Uk Military Aviation, Sarah Weedon, Victoria Cutler, Saskia Revell Jan 2017

A Trend Analysis Of Human Factors Issues In Uk Military Aviation, Sarah Weedon, Victoria Cutler, Saskia Revell

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

Human factors issues in UK military aviation are identified and mitigated through a combination of proactive support and reactive investigations, both of which employ qualitativedata collection and analysis methods. Each piece of work to identify human factors issues is performed on a standalone basis, but a regular review is undertaken to identify common trends. In the most recent review of trends, thematic analysis was used within the framework of the Accident Route Matrix to determine the most prevalent and qualitatively important human factors issues. The thematic analysis identified a wide range of human factors issues, including resource availability, training, documentation, …

Go to article

Nextgen Human Factors Accomplishments And Challenges In The Future, Edmundo A. Sierra Jr. Jan 2017

Nextgen Human Factors Accomplishments And Challenges In The Future, Edmundo A. Sierra Jr.

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), under the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) program, made significant progress in terms of infrastructure modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS). Development of infrastructure incorporated a broad scope of human performance considerations which this paper discussesat a high level. Sincethe FAA completed much of the infrastructure modernization, focus shiftedto NextGen Transformation so that benefits can be realized. NextGen Transformation involves insuring that FAA systems are seamlessly integrated; that integrated pilot and controller procedures are in place; new roles and responsibilities are defined; and that stakeholders are informed, trained, and adapted to the NextGen …

Go to article

Alerts On The Nextgen Flight Deck, Angelia Sebok, Christopher D. Wickens, Brett Walters, Karl Fennell Jan 2017

Alerts On The Nextgen Flight Deck, Angelia Sebok, Christopher D. Wickens, Brett Walters, Karl Fennell

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2017

The future generation of cockpit may substantially change the nature of displays, automation, and their implications for alerting systems. Flight deck automation and information systems imposed by NextGen will create system states that may need to be alerted. New concepts of providing continuous flight information can benefit pilot awareness. Ecological interface displayskeep the operator aware of the system status and constraints, informing the pilot of emerging concerns before an alert is triggered. Continuous auditory and tactile displays support pilot awareness without requiring focused operatorattention. Both approaches improve awareness of system state, but suffer poor operator acceptance. Automation can support pilots …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last