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Human flight deck functions are defined by safety, social, and economic
motivations (Hancock, 1998), and as such they are a unique element of
the flight deck system. When considering flight deck systems within the
context of the NextGen terminal area, the performance of these functions
may be affected by several factors including, for example, physical
condition, state of awareness, emotional state, task demands, cognitive
demands, and environment and operational context. The inter-relationship
of these factors in their manifestation on performance remains largely
unknown. Research conducted under the Operator Performance element
addresses key unknowns that must be addressed to develop the RAHS (link)
and DDS (link) multi-disciplinary concepts.
Communication among humans is a crucial element of NextGen, and
therefore designing interfaces that support such information transfer
and collaboration, and to defining the roles and responsibilities among
teams of operators that afford effective and efficient operations is
critical as is the design of collaboration within teams of automated
agents and human operators. Therefore OP research seeks to provide.
data from empirical research to developers that help enable a “better
than visual” capability, a collaborative work environment, and
integrated alerting/notification for pilots; that foster the appropriate
use of advanced automation and information systems; and that result in
robust automation/ human systems for the purpose of trajectory based
operations. Developing such guidance will improve situation awareness,
workload modulation, and human error resistance and resilience. The
appropriate design of technologies to support operator performance
requires a concomitant approach to evaluating related human performance
constructs. Consequently, this research area also supports concept
design development by improving operator performance assessment for
conceptual design evaluations at Level 3.
Associate Principal Investigator: Kara Latorella
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