Flight Deck Avionics and Air Traffic Management
Flight Deck Avionics and Air Traffic Management aims at understanding operator (pilot/atc) behaviour at the level of rules and knowledge, and aims at the development of advanced flight deck avionics systems to support pilot decision making and situation awareness.
Research aims at the use of techniques from cognitive systems engineering, such as ecological interface design, to create a work environment, possibly including automated systems, that helps pilots in conducting their tasks effectively and efficiently. Examples are the design of airborne separation assurance interfaces, support systems for advanced noise abatement procedures, three-dimensional synthetic vision displays and advanced, human-centered flight deck alerting and warning systems.
Flight Deck Avionics and Air Traffic Management is the least 'mathematical' within DCAV, and challenges students in being creative in designing novel interfaces for humans working in complex environments, through using a sound theoretical paradigm. Graduate students in this profile often test their new avionics systems with real pilots, using the SIMONA flight simulator and the human-machine systems lab fixed-base simulator.
Flight Deck Avionics and Air Traffic Management is recommended for students who want to work on the more operational side of human-machine systems, develop new interfaces, conduct experiments, use statistics, and are not afraid to test their designs and theory in practice, by programming and performing man-in-the-loop experiments or evaluations.
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