The future flight deck: Modelling dual, single and distributed crewing options

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2016, Pages 331-342

  Stanton, Neville A ^a   Harris, Don ^b   Starr, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL COMPOSITES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive work analysis; Crewing; Flight deck; Modelling; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

MODELS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COGNITIVE WORK ANALYSIS; CREWING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; FLIGHT DECKS; FUNCTIONAL LOADINGS; PILOT OPERATIONS; POTENTIAL MODEL; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUTUROLOGY; JOB ANALYSIS; MODEL; SOCIAL NETWORK; TECHNOLOGY; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORECASTING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84958641602     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2015.06.019     Document Type: Article

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