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The impact of alerting designs on air traffic controller's eye movement patterns and situation awareness

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dc.creator Kearney, Peter
dc.creator Li, Wen-Chin
dc.creator Yu, Chung-San
dc.creator Braithwaite, Graham
dc.date 2018-07-27T10:12:30Z
dc.date 2018-07-27T10:12:30Z
dc.date 2018-06-26
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:37:19Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:37:19Z
dc.identifier Kearney P, Li W-C, Yu C-S, Braithwaite G, The impact of alerting designs on air traffic controller’s eye movement patterns and situation awareness, Ergonomics, Volume 62, Issue 2, Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation, 2018, pp. 305-318
dc.identifier 0014-0139
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1493151
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13361
dc.identifier 20838219
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182219
dc.description This research investigated controller’ situation awareness by comparing COOPANS’s acoustic alerts with newly designed semantic alerts. The results demonstrate that ATCOs’ visual scan patterns had significant differences between acoustic and semantic designs. ATCOs established different eye movement patterns on fixations number, fixation duration and saccade velocity. Effective decision support systems require human-centred design with effective stimuli to direct ATCO’s attention to critical events. It is necessary to provide ATCOs with specific alerting information to reflect the nature of of the critical situation in order to minimize the side-effects of startle and inattentional deafness. Consequently, the design of a semantic alert can significantly reduce ATCOs’ response time, therefore providing valuable extra time in a time-limited situation to formulate and execute resolution strategies in critical air safety events. The findings of this research indicate that the context-specified design of semantic alerts could improve ATCO’s situational awareness and significantly reduce response time in the event of Short Term Conflict Alert activation which alerts to two aircraft having less than the required lateral or vertical separation.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject Air traffic management
dc.subject Alerting design
dc.subject Eye movement patterns
dc.subject Situation awareness
dc.subject Visual attention
dc.title The impact of alerting designs on air traffic controller's eye movement patterns and situation awareness
dc.type Article


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