Real Time Validation of Online Situation Awareness Questionnaires in Simulated Approach Air Traffic Control

Real Time Validation of Online Situation Awareness Questionnaires in Simulated Approach Air Traffic Control

Measuring Situation Awareness to evaluate an operator’s ability to handle complex dynamic situations and the use of assistance systems have become a standard approach in Human Factors research. Ideally, the operator’s work should be supported by enabling and disabling assistance systems depending on how well they are currently able to keep track of the situation. On the one hand, if the situati...

Optimizing Online Situation Awareness Probes in Air Traffic Management Tasks

We examined the effectiveness of situation awareness probe questions in predicting sector performance and behavior in a human-in-the-loop simulation air traffic management (ATM) simulation with low (50%) and high (75%) traffic densities. Probes were presented online during the performance of the air traffic management task, and the accuracy and response latencies were measured. Hierarchical lin...

Situation Awareness in Traffic Management Control Rooms

Tractable Real-time Air Traffic Control Automation

A different paradigm is needed for real-time command and control (C&C) problems. Past approaches, using multiprocessors (MP), for real-time computing have had great difficulty in meeting real problem requirements. We review some reasons why C&C problems that require a solution on a MP architecture may be intractable, and then show an architecture where these reasons for intractability are nonex...

Eye-tracking and Protocol Analysis of Expertise in Air Traffic Control Situation Awareness

Analyses of eye tracking and think-aloud protocol data were performed to examine novice-expert differences in perceptual and cognitive aspects of air traffic controllers’ situation awareness. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to perceive situations that were manipulated by situation complexity. In Experiment 2, protocol analysis was performed to extract different task models and strategy...