Aircraft accidents and incidents associated with visual effects from bright light exposures during low-light flight operations

Nakagawara, Van B.; Montgomery, Ronald W.; Wood, Kathryn J.

doi:10.1016/j.optm.2006.11.016

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“…We chose a decision-making situation that is encountered in aviation tasks: responding quickly to an in-flight perturbation, such as turbulence, micro-bursts, severe windshear, structural damage (e.g., from trim tab failure, bird strike, etc.). While such perturbations can occur in many types of flight, they can be a major contributor to mishaps in military aviation, given the greater exposure to risky situations requiring split-second decision-making, such as low-level flight over terrain, or high G-force maneuvers (Knapp and Johnson, 1996 ; Moroze and Snow, 1999 ; Nakagawa et al, 2007 ). When flying at high speed and very close to terrain, a savings of even a few milliseconds in responding to a perturbation can represent the difference between life and death (Haber and Haber, 2003 ).…”

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The Brain Is Faster than the Hand in Split-Second Intentions to Respond to an Impending Hazard: A Simulation of Neuroadaptive Automation to Speed Recovery to Perturbation in Flight Attitude

Callan

Terzibas

Cassel³

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The goal of this research is to test the potential for neuroadaptive automation to improve response speed to a hazardous event by using a brain-computer interface (BCI) to decode perceptual-motor intention. Seven participants underwent four experimental sessions while measuring brain activity with magnetoencephalograpy. The first three sessions were of a simple constrained task in which the participant was to pull back on the control stick to recover from a perturbation in attitude in one condition and to passively observe the perturbation in the other condition. The fourth session consisted of having to recover from a perturbation in attitude while piloting the plane through the Grand Canyon constantly maneuvering to track over the river below. Independent component analysis was used on the first two sessions to extract artifacts and find an event related component associated with the onset of the perturbation. These two sessions were used to train a decoder to classify trials in which the participant recovered from the perturbation (motor intention) vs. just passively viewing the perturbation. The BCI-decoder was tested on the third session of the same simple task and found to be able to significantly distinguish motor intention trials from passive viewing trials (mean = 69.8%). The same BCI-decoder was then used to test the fourth session on the complex task. The BCI-decoder significantly classified perturbation from no perturbation trials (73.3%) with a significant time savings of 72.3 ms (Original response time of 425.0–352.7 ms for BCI-decoder). The BCI-decoder model of the best subject was shown to generalize for both performance and time savings to the other subjects. The results of our off-line open loop simulation demonstrate that BCI based neuroadaptive automation has the potential to decode motor intention faster than manual control in response to a hazardous perturbation in flight attitude while ignoring ongoing motor and visual induced activity related to piloting the airplane.

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The Brain Is Faster than the Hand in Split-Second Intentions to Respond to an Impending Hazard: A Simulation of Neuroadaptive Automation to Speed Recovery to Perturbation in Flight Attitude

Callan

Terzibas

Cassel³

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Drivers with cataract are two to four times more likely to report diffi culty with driving at night and with challenging daytime driving situations than were cataract-free drivers. Glare has been implicated in several aviation accidents ( 14 ). Despite this being of clear aeromedical signifi cance, the current pilot physical examination does little to examine this and as this study has shown, pilots with mild cataract, but perhaps with signifi cant glare symptoms, still meet ICAO standards.…”

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Cataracts in Airline Pilots: Prevalence and Aeromedical Considerations in Japan

Kagami¹,

Bradshaw²,

Fukumoto³

et al. 2009

aviat space environ med

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“…Should the change in lighting require the visual system to move cones to rods, full adaptation may take up to an hour. 52 Pilots are taught compen-satory techniques to successfully maneuver an aircraft despite these vision deficits. Examples of situations where there are large changes in illumination include entering a darkened movie theater on a bright, sunny day 49 or at initiation of emergency lighting during a power failure.…”

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Light for Nurses' Work in the 21st Century

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Symes

Cesario

2014

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

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A literature review was conducted to determine the state of the science related to medication errors and light. The limited literature is discussed in relationship to human vision and light needs. Little systematic action has been taken to increase nurses' awareness of the connection between lighting and potential medication errors. Implications for nursing practice and research about light conditions are provided. Interventions from other industries may aid nursing in making decisions about light conditions.

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Aircraft accidents and incidents associated with visual effects from bright light exposures during low-light flight operations

Cited by 21 publications

References 2 publications

The Brain Is Faster than the Hand in Split-Second Intentions to Respond to an Impending Hazard: A Simulation of Neuroadaptive Automation to Speed Recovery to Perturbation in Flight Attitude

The Brain Is Faster than the Hand in Split-Second Intentions to Respond to an Impending Hazard: A Simulation of Neuroadaptive Automation to Speed Recovery to Perturbation in Flight Attitude

Cataracts in Airline Pilots: Prevalence and Aeromedical Considerations in Japan

Light for Nurses' Work in the 21st Century

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