Ecological Interface Design: Sensor Failure Diagnosis in Air Traffic Control

作     者：Bijsterbosch, V.A. Borst, C. Mulder, M. van Paassen, M.M. 

作者机构：Control & Simulation Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology DelftHS2629 Netherlands 

出 版 物：《IFAC-PapersOnLine》 

年 卷 期：2016年第49卷第19期

页      面：307-312页

核心收录：

主　　题：Air traffic control Air navigation Aircraft detection Automation Aviation Control towers Controllers Decision making Ecology Failure analysis Fault detection Fighter aircraft Conict detections Current technology Ecological interface design Human supervision Human in the loop experiments Sensor failure Sensor failure detection Supervisory control 

摘      要：Future air traffic control will have to rely on more advanced automation in order to support controllers in their job of safely controlling increased traffic volumes. A prerequisite for the success of such automation is that the underlying data driving it is reliable. Current technology, however, still warrants human supervision in coping with (data) uncertainties and consequently in judging the validity of machine decisions. In this paper the Ecological Interface Design (EID) framework is explored to assist controllers in fault diagnosis using a prototype ecological interface (called the Solution Space Diagram) for tactical conict detection and resolution in the horizontal plane. Results from a human-in-the-loop experiment with sixteen participants indicate that the ecological interface with explicit presentation of the means-ends relations between higher-level functional goals and lower-level physical objects (i.e., aircraft) enables improved sensor failure detection. Especially in high complexity scenarios, this feature had a positive impact on failure detection performance. © 2016