Modeling the air traffic controller's cognitive projection process

Cognitive projection enables the operator of a supervisory control system, such as air traffic control, to use predicted future behavior of the system to make decisions about if and how to control the system. New procedures and technologies being implemented in the air traffic control system innately affect the information used for projection and the type of projection required from the controller. Because cognitive projection is not well-understood, launching these projection-impacting technologies and procedures could result in the reluctance of the air traffic controllers to accept these advancements or limit the system performance. A Projection Process Model and a Projection Error Concept were proposed to describe the controller's projection process and the contextual system influences on the projection process. The two primary influences on the projection process were information/display system and task-based projection requirements. A mismatch between the information/display system states and the task-based projection requirements was described through a cognitive transform concept. The projection process itself is composed of the state mental model and the time into the future over which the projection is made.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Reynolds, Hayley J. Davison (Hayley Jaye Davison)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• R. John Hansman.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/35589
• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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