Archive for the 'Aviation Psychology' Category
The many faces of evil…
June 4th, 2007This one is for the aviation psych geeks: The famous approach into Runway 16 at Portsmouth. Yes, this is a real chart, and there are many more like it.
If you don’t get the joke, click here and read the catch phrases in the box on the right side.
PS. The arbitrary nature […]
ISAP 2007 Panel
April 24th, 2007I just finished chairing a panel on Designing, Evaluating and Training Flight Decks of the Future at the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology in Dayton, Ohio. The title, although expansive, was meant to link together recent research on new flight deck designs, and address the training issues that have traditionally prevented innovation in aviation.
(Lately, […]
Evaluating Boeing’s Flight Deck of the Future
October 20th, 2006Most people don’t know that modern airliners run on autopilot almost all the time. In fact, newer planes are technically capable of completing an entire flight with almost no input from humans.
Sadly, the interfaces that control these incredibly complicated automated flight computers date back to the 1970’s, and many important human factors studies have uncovered […]
I’m in Seattle
October 19th, 2006The nifty flight deck engineering team at Boeing has agreed to allow me to collect dissertation data on their new Flight Deck of the Future autoflight interface. I’ve worked with them before on the first evaluation of the FDF, and the time has come to create a more rigorous test, with more sophisticated […]