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Can We Monitor Crew Situation Awareness During Flight?

Authors:
Tanja Bos
Antoine de Reus

Keywords: Crew monitoring, Situation Awareness, Modelling

Abstract:
Abstract— Is it possible to automatically and non-intrusively observe flight crew behaviour in the cockpit in order to monitor their Situational Awareness during flight? This work in progress investigates the possibility to automatically monitor flight crew Situational Awareness (SA). The monitoring tool is to automatically analyse the Situational Awareness of both pilots on the basis of their visual scanning, their interaction with cockpit systems and their speech. Visual scanning is an indicator for the first level of Situational Awareness (perception), which is a necessary basis for higher levels of Situational Awareness (comprehension and projection). The timing of pilot interactions with cockpit systems as well as speech could be indicators of these higher levels of Situational Awareness. The question we would like to answer in our work is: can we establish a common behavioural pattern within a flight crew that indicates optimal SA and can we use this as a reference to identify reduced SA? And, if this proves to be impossible, is an individual reference pattern possible and is that a suitable alternative?

Pages: 68 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-440-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015