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Table of Contents
Foreword | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xiii |
Introduction | |
Human Factors in Aviation: An Overview | p. 3 |
Progress Since the First Edition | p. 5 |
A Look Ahead | p. 9 |
Human Factors in Aviation: This Edition | p. 11 |
A Final Comment | p. 17 |
Organizational perspectives | |
The System Perspective on Human Factors in Aviation | p. 23 |
Introduction | p. 23 |
Aircraft Systems of Relevance and the Human Component | p. 29 |
Systems Engineering Methods and Application to Aviation Human Factors | p. 41 |
Summary, the Future, and Some Key Issues | p. 59 |
The System Safety Perspective | p. 65 |
Introduction and Some Definitions | p. 65 |
Defining a System Boundary | p. 66 |
Evaluating for Safety | p. 79 |
Supporting the Human Contribution to Safety | p. 88 |
Design Via a "System Safety Perspective" | p. 91 |
The Safety Culture Perspective | p. 95 |
Introduction | p. 95 |
Definition of Safety Culture | p. 97 |
Assessment of Safety Culture | p. 104 |
Safety Culture Transformation | p. 112 |
Conclusion: Synthesis of Safety Culture Methods and Outcomes | p. 116 |
The High Reliability Organization Perspective | p. 123 |
Introduction | p. 123 |
HRO: Some Origins | p. 124 |
Pilot and Crew Performance Issues | |
The Human in Flight: From Kinesthetic Sense to Cognitive Sensibility | p. 147 |
Introduction | p. 147 |
The Evolution of the Aircraft Cockpit and of the Pilot's Task | p. 148 |
Correspondence and the Naturalistic World | p. 152 |
Coherence and the Electronic World | p. 157 |
Managing the Hybrid Ecology | p. 162 |
Challenges for NextGen Aircraft | p. 164 |
Summary and Implications for Design | p. 168 |
Conclusions | p. 170 |
Information Processing in Aviation | p. 175 |
Introduction | p. 175 |
Information Processing in Early Aviation | p. 178 |
Higher-Level Processing in Aviation Systems | p. 182 |
Resources for Meeting the Information Processing Challenges in Aviation | p. 194 |
Emergent Processes-Mental Workload and Situation Awareness | p. 202 |
Future Directions | p. 206 |
Managing Workload, Performance, and Situation Awareness in Aviation Systems | p. 217 |
A Management Framework | p. 219 |
Practical Issues: Combining WL, SA, and Performance | p. 237 |
Team Dynamics at 35,000 Feet | p. 249 |
Introduction | p. 249 |
Why does Aviation Crew Performance Matter? | p. 251 |
Advances in Team Performancè Research | p. 253 |
Advances in Aviation Crew Performance | p. 258 |
What Factors Impact Crew Performance? | p. 263 |
How can Aviation Crew Performance be Improved? | p. 273 |
Where do we go from here? | p. 277 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 285 |
Acknowledgment | p. 285 |
Flight Training and Simulation as Saftey Generators | p. 293 |
Growth | p. 293 |
Industry Safety | p. 295 |
Safety Generators in Crew Training | p. 307 |
Training Enhancement Strategies | p. 314 |
Summary | p. 332 |
Understanding and Analyzing Human Error in Real-World Operations | p. 335 |
A Philosophical Perspective on Errors and Accidents | p. 338 |
Sources of Error Data | p. 345 |
Examples of Error Studies | p. 359 |
Concluding Thoughts | p. 370 |
Acknowledgments | p. 372 |
Cognitive Architectures for Human Factors in Aviation | p. 375 |
Introduction, Motivation, and Organization | p. 375 |
What are Cognitive Architectures? | p. 376 |
Relevant Recent Publications | p. 380 |
Improving Human Performance and Learning Models for Warfighter Readiness | p. 388 |
Considerations, Challenges, and Recommendations for the Future of Cognitive Architecture Research | p. 391 |
Summary and Conclusion | p. 395 |
Acknowledgments | p. 396 |
Aircrew Fatigue, Sleep Need and Circadian Rhythmicity | p. 401 |
Introduction | p. 401 |
Biological Regulation of Sleep, Alertness, and Performance | p. 402 |
Work Factors in Relation to Biological Control of Fatigue | p. 407 |
Fatigue Challenges in Operational Environments | p. 413 |
Innovative Approaches to Operational Management of Fatigue | p. 419 |
Conclusions | p. 429 |
Acknowledgment | p. 431 |
Human Factors in Aircraft Design | |
Aviation Displays | p. 439 |
Introduction | p. 439 |
From Visual to Cognitive | p. 440 |
Human Factors Implications for Cockpit Displays | p. 443 |
Cockpit Integration | p. 445 |
Source Integration | p. 447 |
Type Integration | p. 450 |
Function Integration | p. 455 |
Environmental Integration | p. 460 |
Integration Summary and Blackouts | p. 467 |
Displays in the Next Generation | p. 469 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 472 |
Acknowledgments | p. 473 |
Cockpit Automation: Still Struggling to Catch Up | p. 479 |
Introduction | p. 479 |
Automation Levels, Properties, and Capabilities | p. 480 |
Breakdowns in Pilot-Automation Interaction: Research Methods and Findings, Operational Problems, and Proposed Solutions | p. 483 |
Looking Ahead: Opportunities and Challenges Associated with the Move Toward the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NEXTGEN) | p. 495 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 497 |
Acknowledgment | p. 498 |
Unmanned Aircraft Systems | p. 505 |
The Accident Record | p. 509 |
Teleoperation and Unmanned Aircraft | p. 512 |
Design of the Ground Control Station | p. 518 |
Transfer of Control | p. 520 |
Airspace Access | p. 521 |
Human Factors in Airworthiness | p. 524 |
Conclusion | p. 527 |
Crew Station Design and Integration | p. 533 |
Introduction | p. 533 |
Evolution of Crew Station Design | p. 534 |
What Impacts Today's Crew Station Design and Integration? | p. 544 |
Tools and Methods for Design and Integration | p. 553 |
Conclusions | p. 559 |
Vehicles and Systems | |
The History in the Basics and the Challenges for the Future Captain William Hamman | p. 563 |
Introduction | p. 564 |
Evolution of Evidence-based Safe Practices in the Flightdeck | p. 568 |
Evolution of Flightcrew Systems-based Training and Assessment | p. 574 |
Evolution in the Flightdeck Design and Operation | p. 578 |
Evolution of the Airline Environment | p. 581 |
Evolution and Change in the Environment We Fly In | p. 584 |
Evolution into the Future of Air Travel | p. 588 |
Summary | p. 591 |
General Aviation | p. 595 |
Personal Flying | p. 597 |
Flight Training | p. 612 |
Business Flying | p. 620 |
Afterword | p. 622 |
Acknowledgments | p. 623 |
Air Traffic Management | p. 629 |
Introduction | p. 629 |
Elements of the Air Navigation System | p. 630 |
Human Factors and Operational Issues | p. 639 |
Human Factors Methods and Techniques | p. 646 |
Summary | p. 654 |
Maintenance Human Factors: A Brief History | p. 659 |
Introduction | p. 659 |
Building the Foundation of Maintenance Human Factors, 1988-1999 | p. 660 |
Developing Methods and Tools to Meet New Challenges (2000-2008) | p. 678 |
Challenges for the Future | p. 691 |
Nextgen commentary | |
Commentary on NEXTGEN and Aviation Human Factors | p. 701 |
Human Factors and NextGen Flightdecks | p. 704 |
NextGen Human Factors and ATC | p. 708 |
Final Thoughts | p. 709 |
Disclaimer | p. 709 |
Index | p. 711 |
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