Mental workload is an important concept and has been proven to be a precursor to situation awareness and operative performance. This thesis describes methods to measure mental workload through self-ratings and psychophysiological measurements. Similarities and differences in psychophysiological reactions and rated mental workload between simulated and real flights are described. The consequence...

The Department of Defense has a need for an identity management system that uses two factor authentications to ensure that only the correct individuals get access to their top secret flight simulator program. Currently the Department of Defense does not have a web interface sign in system. We will be creating a system that will allow them to access their programs, back office and administrator ...

Objective: To analyze the psychophysiological response during takeoff, landing, air-air attack and air-ground maneuvers. Methods: A total of 11 expert pilots (age=33.36 (5.37)) from Spanish Air Force participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants had to complete a flight simulator following missions: 1) takeoff; 2) Air-air attack; 3) Air-Ground attack, 4) Landing. The electroencephalo...

Flight simulators are used for di erent purposes, such as pilot training, aircraft design and development. Full-scale ight simulators have high costs and dependency on aircraft type due to hardware constraints. Hence, virtual reality ight simulators are designed. On the other hand, they are generally created only for speci c applications, such as helicopter simulators. As a result, these tools ...

In this paper we describe our approach to a situation recogniser system that currently is being developed for a flight simulator environment. The situation recogniser is part of a context-aware system and can be seen as a first step to an artificial intelligent pilot bot. We will address our explorative data study (PCA analysis), our attempt to recognise and predict situations with an Elman neu...