The influence of task load on situation awareness and control strategy in the ATC tower environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maik Friedrich ◽  
Maresa Biermann ◽  
Patrick Gontar ◽  
Marcus Biella ◽  
Klaus Bengler
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Task Load ◽  
Atc Tower ◽  
And Control

Procedural or Conceptual Training: Which is Better for Teaching Novice Pilots Landings and Traffic Patterns?

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (26) ◽  
pp. 1964-1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Dattel ◽  
Francis T. Durso ◽  
Raynald Bédard
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Traffic Patterns ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Traffic Pattern ◽  
Training Groups ◽  
Student Pilots ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
And Control

Forty-eight student pilots and recently licensed private pilots were randomly assigned to one of three training groups: procedural, conceptual, and control. Participants in the procedural group spent approximately two hours reading text and watching videos specific to the step-by-step procedures of how to fly traffic patterns and land an airplane. Participants in the conceptual group spent approximately two hours reading reasoning explanations, everyday metaphors to aviation, and viewing diagrams of traffic patterns and landings. Participants in the control group spent approximately two hours watching aviation-themed videos and reading aviation-themed text, but unrelated to traffic patterns, landings, or any other flight task. During training, participants answered questions specific to the material they were reading or watching. At the conclusion of the training participants were tested on typical and atypical traffic pattern performance, typical and atypical landing performance, and routine and non routine situations for 20 minutes in a medium fidelity flight simulator. Conceptual training was best for traffic pattern performance and atypical landings. Additionally, the conceptual group had better situation awareness than the procedural and control groups for landing situations and non routine traffic pattern situations. Finally, the procedural group did not show better performance than the control group on any test.

The role of situation awareness for understanding signalling and control in rail operations

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Golightly ◽  
John R. Wilson ◽  
Emma Lowe ◽  
Sarah Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
And Control

Distributed Situation Awareness in Command and Control: A Case Study in the Energy Distribution Domain

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Salmon ◽  
Neville A. Stanton ◽  
Guy H. Walker ◽  
Chris Baber ◽  
Richard McMaster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Distribution ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
And Control

Distributed situation awareness in command and control: A case study in the energy distribution domain

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Salmon ◽  
Neville A. Stanton ◽  
Guy H. Walker ◽  
Chris Baber ◽  
Richard McMaster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Distribution ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
And Control

Toward Developing Situation Awareness Evaluation Strategies for Command and Control Environments

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-438
Author(s):  
Laura G. Militello ◽  
Laurie L. Quill ◽  
Kelly M. Vinson ◽  
Mona T. Stilson ◽  
Megan E. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
And Control

The Impact of Information Integration in a Simulation of Future Submarine Command and Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872082110458
Author(s):  
Steph Michailovs ◽  
Stephen Pond ◽  
Megan Schmitt ◽  
Jessica Irons ◽  
Matthew Stoker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Control Rooms ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Operator Workload

Objective Examine the extent to which increasing information integration across displays in a simulated submarine command and control room can reduce operator workload, improve operator situation awareness, and improve team performance. Background In control rooms, the volume and number of sources of information are increasing, with the potential to overwhelm operator cognitive capacity. It is proposed that by distributing information to maximize relevance to each operator role (increasing information integration), it is possible to not only reduce operator workload but also improve situation awareness and team performance. Method Sixteen teams of six novice participants were trained to work together to combine data from multiple sensor displays to build a tactical picture of surrounding contacts at sea. The extent that data from one display were available to operators at other displays was manipulated (information integration) between teams. Team performance was assessed as the accuracy of the generated tactical picture. Results Teams built a more accurate tactical picture, and individual team members had better situation awareness and lower workload, when provided with high compared with low information integration. Conclusion A human-centered design approach to integrating information in command and control settings can result in lower workload, and enhanced situation awareness and team performance. Application The design of modern command and control rooms, in which operators must fuse increasing volumes of complex data from displays, may benefit from higher information integration based on a human-centered design philosophy, and a fundamental understanding of the cognitive work that is carried out by operators.

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