Technical approaches for measurement of human errors

Human error is a significant contributing factor in a very high proportion of civil transport, general aviation, and rotorcraft accidents. The technical details of a variety of proven approaches for the measurement of human errors in the context of the national airspace system are presented. Unobtrusive measurements suitable for cockpit operations and procedures in part of full mission simulation are emphasized. Procedure, system performance, and human operator centered measurements are discussed as they apply to the manual control, communication, supervisory, and monitoring tasks which are relevant to aviation operations

Aerospace medicine and biology. A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 206, May 1980

This bibliography lists 169 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in April 1980

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 158, September 1976

This bibliography lists 191 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August 1976

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 192

This bibliography lists 247 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1979

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 314)

This bibliography lists 139 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August, 1988

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 324)

This bibliography lists 200 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during May, 1989. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and psychology, life support systems and controlled environments, safety equipment, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, and flight crew behavior and performance

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: Cumulative index, 1979

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in the Supplements 190 through 201 of 'Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Continuing Bibliography.' It includes three indexes-subject, personal author, and corporate source

Multimodal Analysis of Pilot’s Fatigue During a Multi-Phase Flight Mission

One troubling threat to successful flight missions is attributed to fatigue induced and errors. Therefore, discovering effective methods to assess fatigue has been a major topic discussed by professional pilots and aviation experts. Fatigue is a major human factor related issue in aviation and currently subject to increased discussion by aviation administrations and professional pilots. Therefore, effective assessment of fatigue will provide opportunities to reduce the risk of fatigue-induced errors. Currently available subjective measures that assess fatigue can be somewhat affected by external and internal factors, that might cause biased judgment. Therefore, Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT), which provides objective measures, can be a viable approach to measure fatigue. In addition, eye movement analysis might augment the fatigue assessment, because eye movement analysis is an unobtrusive approach that does not require direct contact with the participant and can be measured for a long duration. However, it is unknown how eye movement characteristics are correlated with fatigue. In this research, a multi-modal fatigue measurement framework was developed by combining the PVT analysis with eye movement analysis. In detail, PVT measures (i.e., reaction time, lapses & false starts) and eye movement characteristics (i.e., eye fixation duration, pupil size, number of eye fixations, gaze entropy) were measured to determine pilots’ fatigue level under different flight conditions. The results show that significant correlations exist among the eye movement characteristics and the PVTs measures. The proposed multi-modal approach show promise on evaluating pilot fatigue in near real time, which in turn might enable timely recovery interventions

Aerospace Medicine and Biology. A continuing bibliography with indexes

This bibliography lists 244 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in February 1981. Aerospace medicine and aerobiology topics are included. Listings for physiological factors, astronaut performance, control theory, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics are included

Human operator performance of remotely controlled tasks: Teleoperator research conducted at NASA's George C. Marshal Space Flight Center

The capabilities within the teleoperator laboratories to perform remote and teleoperated investigations for a wide variety of applications are described. Three major teleoperator issues are addressed: the human operator, the remote control and effecting subsystems, and the human/machine system performance results for specific teleoperated tasks