Cognitive modelling of pilot errors and error recovery in flight management tasks

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Lüdtke;Jan-Patrick Osterloh;Tina Mioch;Frank Rister;Rosemarijn Looije

  • Affiliations:
  • OFFIS e.V., Oldenburg, Germany;OFFIS e.V., Oldenburg, Germany;TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands;Hapag-Lloyd Flug, Langenhagen, Germany;TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • HESSD'09 Proceedings of the 7th FIP WG 13.5 international conference on Human Error, Safety and Systems Development
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a cognitive modelling approach to predict pilot errors and error recovery during the interaction with aircraft cockpit systems. The model allows execution of flight procedures in a virtual simulation environment and production of simulation traces. We present traces for the interaction with a future Flight Management System that show in detail the dependencies of two cognitive error production mechanisms that are integrated in the model: Learned Carelessness and Cognitive Lockup. The traces provide a basis for later comparison with human data in order to validate the model. The ultimate goal of the work is to apply the model within a method for the analysis of human errors to support human centred design of cockpit systems. As an example we analyze the perception of automatic flight mode changes.