Assessment of impact of degree of automation on human roles

Casar, R. A.; Arranz, Andrés; Escribano, Blasa María Villena; Grosskreutz, A.; Garcia, R.; Suikat, Reiner; Jipp, Meike; Zon, G.D.R.; Joosse, Michiel

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“…Eye movements, mental workload, and situation awareness are all related to the fundamentals of air traffic control, i.e., detecting and resolving potential traffic conflict to provide a safe and orderly flow of aircraft traffic. Both the Joint Planning and Development Office in the U.S. and EUROCONTROL in Europe have initiated research projects to investigate how automation impacts human roles in future air traffic management systems [34,35]. However, less work has been found on the understanding of air traffic controller's behaviors in detail under different levels of automation.…”

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The Impact of Automation on Air Traffic Controller’s Behaviors

Wang

Lin

et al. 2021

Aerospace

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Air traffic controllers have to make quick decisions to keep air traffic safe. Their behaviors have a significant impact on the operation of the air traffic management (ATM) system. Automation tools have enhanced the ATM system’s capability by reducing the controller’s task-load. Much attention has been devoted to developing advanced automation in the last decade. However, less is known about the impact of automation on the behaviors of air traffic controllers. Here, we empirically tested the effects of three levels of automation—including manual, attention-guided, and automated—as well as varying traffic levels on eye movements, situation awareness and mental workload. The results showed that there are significant differences in the gaze and saccade behaviors between the attention-guided group and automated group. Traffic affected eye movements under the manual mode or under the attention-guided mode, but had no effect on eye movements under the automated mode. The results also supported the use of automation for enhancing situation awareness while reducing mental workload. Our work has potential implications for the design of automation and operation procedures.

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Section: Research Gap and Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%