Cognitive modelling of pilot errors and error recovery in flight management tasks
conference paper
This paper presents a cognitive modelling approach to predict pilot errors and error recovery during the interaction with aircraft cockpit systems. The model allows execution of flight procedures in a virtual simulation environment and production of simulation traces. We present traces for the interaction with a future Flight Management System that show in detail the dependencies of two cognitive error production mechanisms that are integrated in the model: Learned Carelessness and Cognitive Lockup. The traces provide a basis for later comparison with human data in order to validate the model. The ultimate goal of the work is to apply the model within a method for the analysis of human errors to support human centred design of cockpit systems. As an example we analyze the perception of automatic flight mode changes
TNO Identifier
242259
Publisher
Springer
Source title
Proceedings of the 7th Int. Working Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 23-25, 2009
Pages
73 - 83