Pilot situational awareness modeling for cockpit interface evaluation

Abstract

As the highly development of complexity and automation level of human-machine system in airplane cockpit, flight information shown in display and control system became diversified and complicated, which meant tremendous information was required to be simultaneously processed for pilot’s sake. Therefore, great information would provide with more comprehensive data support while raise higher requirement of interface design of cockpit display. This paper concentrated on pilot situational awareness (SA) modeling based on human-machine interaction in cockpit system and developed theoretical application research in three connected parts: SA modeling based on attention resource allocation, SA modeling based on cognitive process analysis and SA modeling based on interface evaluation.