Print Email Facebook Twitter Interface design for human-automation collaboration in highly automated ATC environments Title Interface design for human-automation collaboration in highly automated ATC environments Author Vaiopoulos, Paris (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor Borst, C. (mentor) Mulder, Max (mentor) van Paassen, M.M. (mentor) de Rooij, G. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2023-06-27 Abstract The joint management of airspace by human controllers and automated agents is gaining prevalence in nextgeneration Air Traffic Control (ATC). In such settings, human controllers are challenged with maintaining situation awareness while dealing with intricate and often opaque automated technologies. This study probed the potential of a concept interface, which augments traditional radar displays, to facilitate human controller-automation teamwork. With visual explanations and interactive elements, it intended to make the control behavior of automated agents transparent and comprehensible to human operators. The primary objective was to explore whether features from a non-conventional design could offer insights for designing interfaces for highly automated ATC operations. The concept was tested in a prototype-based user experience evaluation with static traffic scenarios, involving 15 active air traffic controllers from the Maastricht Upper Area Control Center. Results indicated that the visual explanations of the interface enabled controllers to comprehend the plans and reasoning underlying automation’s behavior. A significant correlation between controllers’ evaluations and their attitudes toward novel technologies underlines the influence of pre-existing beliefs about automation on the acceptance of new interface tools. Future research is warranted to streamline parts of the design and further investigate the interface’s capacity for explaining automation’s actions in dynamic, real-time scenarios. Subject Air Traffic ControlInterface Designexplainable automationUser ExperienceHuman Machine InteractionHuman Machine Interface DesignHuman Machine Cooperation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6483918f-4675-4bb6-8d7b-6f3e54a63ed2 Embargo date 2026-07-11 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2023 Paris Vaiopoulos Files file embargo until 2026-07-11