Motivation: Moving towards the highly controversial single pilot cockpit, more and more automation
capabilities are added to today’s airliners 1. However, to operate safely without a pilot
monitoring, avionics systems in future cockpits will have to be able to intelligently assist the remaining
pilot. One critical enabler for proper assistance is a reliable classification of the pilot’s
state, both in normal conditions and more critically in abnormal situations like an equipment failure.
Only with a good assessment of the pilot’s state, the cockpit can adapt to the pilot’s current
needs, i.e. alert, adapt displays, take over tasks, monitor procedures, etc. [2]
