Human-Centered Design of a 3D-Augmented Strategic Weather Management System: First Design Loops

Analysing human activity development through (work)spaces in a human-centered design project for commercial airline pilots

“…This design project is aimed at creating the prototype for a new work tool for airline pilots relating to data on the weather in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft and ultimately along and around the whole flight path during a flight (Boulnois, 2018; Boulnois and Stephane, 2018). After the needs had been monitored and various analyses of aviation experience had been conducted during the preceding projects, OWSAS 1 and OWSAS 2, a tool and interface type was proposed as one of the most relevant for enabling information to be shared between pilots and air traffic controllers.…”

“…That, in any event, was the choice the designers made in light of the discussions with the pilots during the preceding steps. The issue was fundamental for the designers during this step in which mathematical databases had to be synthesised and processed synchronously according to the work analysis with pilots (Boulnois, 2018). Thereby, the designers were endeavouring to guarantee access to the most relevant and readily interpretable data without any risk of misunderstanding or difficulties for the pilots, who when using it will deduce from it the navigation choices that are most appropriate for safety on board.…”

“…The challenge of this transdisciplinary project is to explore how to develop a co-analysis centred on pilots’ work emulated in a design project, what types of methods can be used, and how to integrate them as a genuine cornerstone of technical design questioning participatory design practices (Light and Akama, 2014). We therefore propose a research combining a design engineering approach based on HCD (Boy, 2016; Boulnois, 2018) with an occupational psychology approach based on a CA perspective (Clot and Sannino, 2009; Kloëtzer et al , 2016), whereby human activity is looked at “clinically”, or “close to”, the real work situations. The double purpose is to holistically improve work situations – integrating the pilots’ experience – and to enable to develop social interaction between designers and experts, improving future work situations with a new technical tool.…”

“…This design research combined a “Human-Centred Design” approach (Boy, 2015) with an occupational psychology, including a “Clinic of Activity” perspective (Kloëtzer et al , 2016). It integrates experts within the research process to design a new technological tool for indicating weather conditions in flight (Boulnois, 2018).…”

Human Systems Integration and Design

“…In addition, HCD fundamentals will be presented to better understand and correctly perform when designing complex systems. The AUTOS pyramid showed to be a very useful support to human-centered design and development of an onboard aircraft weather situation awareness system (Boulnois, 2018), and in the automotive sector (Moertl, Neuhuber, & Pretto, 2019).…”