Print Email Facebook Twitter Ecological Interface Design of a Tactical Airborne Separation Assistance Tool Title Ecological Interface Design of a Tactical Airborne Separation Assistance Tool Author Van Dam, S. Mulder, M. Van Paassen, M.M. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Control and Operations Date 2008-10-20 Abstract In a free-flight airspace environment, pilots have more freedom to choose user-preferred trajectories. An onboard pilot support system is needed that exploits travel freedom while maintaining spatial separation with other traffic. Ecological interface design is used to design an interface tool that assists pilots with the tactical planning of efficient conflict-free trajectories toward their destination. Desired pilot actions emerge from the visualization of workspace affordances in terms of a suitable description of aircraft (loco)motion. Traditional models and descriptions for aircraft motion cannot be applied efficiently for this purpose. Through functional modeling, more suitable locomotion models for trajectory planning are analyzed. As a result, a novel interface, the state vector envelope, is presented that is intended to provide the pilot with both low-level information, allowing direct action, and high-level information, allowing conflict understanding and situation awareness. Subject ecological interface design (EID)functional modelingnavigation interfaceseparation assistance To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:64479473-1f94-4928-bcd3-e7a3af90af38 Publisher IEEE ISSN 1083-4427 Source IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, 38 (6), 2008 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2008 IEEE Files PDF dam2008.pdf 782.3 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:64479473-1f94-4928-bcd3-e7a3af90af38/datastream/OBJ/view