Aviation Automation: The Search for A Human-centered Approach (Human Factors in Transportation)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805821279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It is a capable and easily accessed reference work that will likely find a favored place on the bookshelves of human factors practitioners, transportation specialists, and students, among others in the industry.—Transportation Human FactorsThis book brings together in one carefully structured tome the impetus for automation in aviation and the strengths and pitfalls it can confer. Throughout, the book is well illustrated allowing the reader to better understand some of the uses of automation and envisage some of the issues surrounding the importance of a good interface between the human and the automated system.There is probably no other currently available book that captures the impact--both positive and negative--of automation in any one specific domain as well as this book does.—Ergonomics Abstracts. For such individuals this book, with its background information, is probably the best single reference available.—E
These problems are not unique to aviation; they exist in other highly dynamic domains as well. The author focuses on the ability of human operators to work cooperatively with the constellation of machines they command and control, because it is the interactions among these system elements that result in the system's success or failure, whether in aviation or elsewhere. In particular, incidents and accidents have occurred which suggest that the principle problems with today's aviation automation are associated with its complexity, coupling, autonomy, and opacity. In recent years, new problems in aircraft have emerged due to failures in the human-machine relationship. Similar problems in the air traffic management system are predicted as it becomes more fully automated. These incidents and accidents have motivated this inquiry into aviation automation. The advent of very compact, very powerful digital computers has made it possible to automate a great many processes that formerly required large, complex machinery. This book, an expansion and revision of the author's earlier technical papers
Strong argument for human-centered air traffic automation Billings covers the evolution of aviation automation, especially in the airborne side of the 'equation', its successes and failures, and the requirements for the future.Incorporating the principles of human-centered automation early in the development of Air Traffic Management automation, ATC modernization would be well-advanced by also taking advantage of the lessons learned in on-board systems.In order to maintain the situational awareness of the human operators, the design of ATM automation should be based on the 'management by consent' doctrine. A. "How do humans and machines understand each other?" according to Scott Jackson. This may be the most authoritative book written on how to design automated systems, such as on aircraft or nuclear power systems, can be designed to work with the humans who operate them. Dr. Billings provides a set of simple rules (he calls requirements), based on his experience, that both the machine and the human must comply with. For example, "the human and the machine must understand each others' intentions". This book was originally written as part of project for the FAA and then published as a book in its present form.