Designing for Situation Awareness

Designing for Situation Awareness: the World behind the Glass

Mulder, Max (TU Delft Control & Operations)
Borst, C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation)
van Paassen, M.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation)

Control & Operations

2017

In the design of human-machine interfaces and automation, an important question is how to obtain and validate a design that is capable of supporting the operator’s understanding and situation awareness of the process under control. Whereas many research efforts address the question of ‘what is the operator aware of?’ – the awareness – only a few investigations focus on studying what the operator should be aware of in the first place, i.e., ‘what is the situation?’ In this paper we briefly discuss some of our research activities which aim at answering this second question, following an ‘ecological approach’ to interface design. The clever use of automation tools and novel visualizations will be presented that allows human operators working in aviation (pilots, air traffic controllers) in dealing with complex tasks. The airborne self-separation task will be discussed, as an example of showing how ecological interfaces can support pilots in their decision making

Human-machine Systems
Automation
Cockpits
Aerospace

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dec47ad2-dfa7-4969-a208-512f437b1d6d

https://doi.org/10.5220/0006796500000000

SciTePress

978-989-758-267-7

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, 2017-10-31 → 2017-11-02, Funchal, Portugal

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2017 Max Mulder, C. Borst, M.M. van Paassen