Aviation research, sourced & cited.

Quantifying the Impact of Spatial Disorientation on Pilot Mental Workload and Attentional Focus

Objective We aimed to find objective measures of the impact of spatially disorienting (SD) stimuli on pilot cognition in an ecologically valid environment.

Development and validation of spatial disorientation scenarios using virtual reality and motion simulator.

Spatial Disorientation (SD) can cause critical aviation accidents by adversely affecting the pilot's ability to perform a flight mission.

Over a decade of UAV incidents: A human factors analysis of causal factors.

This analysis examined systemic causes of Uncrewed Air Vehicle (UAV) accidents identifying operator, environmental, supervisory, and organisational factors through the use of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification…

Research on Lateral Safety Spacing for Fusion Operation Based on Unmanned and Manned Aircraft-Event Modeling

With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle technology and its increasing application across various fields, current airspace resources are insufficient for unmanned aerial vehicles’ needs.

Human factors in cybersecurity: Designing an effective cybersecurity education program for healthcare staff

Leaders who promote cybersecurity education focused on the human factors of cyberattack build a resilient workforce that complements technical protections, reducing organizational risk.

Analysis on coupling dynamic effect of human errors in aviation safety.

Human factors have increasingly been the leading cause of aircraft accidents. In most cases, human factors are not working alone, instead they are coupled with complex environment, mechanical factors, physiological and p…

Informing Visual Display Design of Electronic Health Records: A Human Factors Cross-Industry Perspective

Despite their prevalence, poorly designed electronic health records (EHRs) are common, and research shows poor design consequences include clinician burnout, diagnostic error, and even patient harm.

Increasing the margin of patient safety for periodontal and implant treatments: The role of human factors

Early complications following periodontal and dental implant surgeries are typically attributed to technique or poor biological response, ignoring the possibility of the human element.

Development of effective human factors interventions for aviation safety management

Introduction In the aviation industry, safety management has moved away from capturing frontline failures toward the management of systemic conditions through organizational safety management systems (SMS).

Analysis of Human Factors in Typical Accident Tests of Certain Type Flight Simulator

With the improvement of modern aviation equipment manufacturing technology, there are relatively few failures due to the unreliability of the aircraft.

Human factors in aviation: Fatigue management in ramp workers

Abstract Although over the years, technical systems (equipment) have been evolving, most of the occurrences in the aviation industry, namely in the ground-handling area, are related to human error, constituting a neglect…

U-Space and UTM Deployment as an Opportunity for More Complex UAV Operations Including UAV Medical Transport

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) commonly called drones are relatively new entrants to the airspace.

Impact of human factors in aircraft accident mitigation and aircraft maintenance training needs in post COVID-19 aviation

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of human factor training in aircraft maintenance accident mitigation and aircraft safety in post COVID-19 aviation scenarios.

SMART SKY EYE System for Preliminary Structural Safety Assessment of Buildings Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to become one of the most commercialized research areas in the world over the next decade.

Embedded Computation Architectures for Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

This paper addresses the challenge of embedded computing resources required by future autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Based on an analysis of the required onboard functions that will lead to higher levels of …

Verbal Reports Influence on Pilot Flight Performance and Mental Stress Under Spatial Disorientation.

BACKGROUND: Circumstances in flight can adversely affect a pilots spatial abilities and lead to spatial disorientation (SD), increasing the potential for fatal accidents.

Effect of Spatial Disorientation in a Virtual Environment on Gait and Vital Features in Patients with Dementia: Pilot Single-Blind Randomized Control Trial

Background Orientation deficits are among the most devastating consequences of early dementia. Digital navigation devices could overcome these deficits if adaptable to the user’s needs (ie, provide situation-aware, proac…

Spatial Disorientation Impact on the Precise Approach in Simulated Flight.

BACKGROUND: The risks posed by flight illusions impacting pilot spatial orientation have been determined as a safety concern from numerous past aviation accident investigations.

Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Human factors are important causes of hazardous chemical storage accidents, and clarifying the relationship between human factors can help to identify the logical chain between unsafe behaviors and influential factors in…

Transport safety and human factors in the era of automation: What can transport modes learn from each other?

One of the main aims of introducing automation in transport is to improve safety by reducing or eliminating human errors; it is often argued however that this may induce new types of errors.

Using Digital and Physical Simulation to Focus on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Aviation Maintainability

Objective: This research aimed to evaluate the differences in the assessments made by three simulation tools used in a maintainability design office to perform human factor/ergonomics (HFE) analysis: digital human modeli…

Susceptibility to Flight Simulator-Induced Spatial Disorientation in Pilots and Non-Pilots

ABSTRACT Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether pilots and non-pilots differ in their susceptibility to spatial disorientation (SD) during a flight in various disorienting scenarios, and in coping with SD.

Accident analysis in practice: A review of Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) applications in the peer reviewed academic literature

The Human Factors Analysis & Classification System (HFACS) is arguably the most popular accident analysis method within Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Using an Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone) to Conduct a Complex High Altitude Search and Rescue Operation: A Case Study

Unmanned aircraft systems, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or drones, are becoming increasingly common consumer products; their potential applications to search and rescue operations are becoming ever more apparen…

An analysis of human factors in fifty controlled flight into terrain aviation accidents from 2007 to 2017.

INTRODUCTION Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) account for a considerable amount of fatalities when compared to other accident categories. Human factors are deemed significant contributory causes in these accidents.

Editorial: Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation

Ergonomics and Human Factors (E/HF) in Aviation is essential for the safety and efficiency of commercial airlines, passenger, cargo and military operations, and for the well-being of their passenge...

Wrist-Worn Electrodermal Activity as a Novel Neurophysiological Biomarker of Autonomic Symptoms in Spatial Disorientation

Background: Spatial disorientation is one of the most frequent causes of aircraft accidents, and is thus a major problem affecting air safety.

A modified accident analysis and investigation model for the general aviation industry: Emphasizing on human and organizational factors.

INTRODUCTION Currently, there is a lack of specific analytical tools for general aviation accidents (GAAs). This has led to loopholes in the prevention of GAAs.

Selective Auditory Attention and Spatial Disorientation Cues Effect on Flight Performance.

INTRODUCTION: The auditory system is not as heavily involved in the pilot's spatial orientation as the visual and vestibular systems; however, it plays a significant role in the cockpit for communication and warning info…

Change Detection Flicker Task Effects on Simulator-Induced Spatial Disorientation Events.

INTRODUCTION A visual stimulus change detection is an extremely important pilot's cognitive process. This is especially true when pilot errors caused by perceptual failures have a negative effect on his/her spatial orien…

Cardiac Inflight Incapacitations of U.S. Airline Pilots: 1995-2015.

INTRODUCTION Inflight medical incapacitations are rare events that can result in the loss of lives and aircraft. The potential for an in-flight medical event deserves the attention of certification authorities.

Optical Illusions and Spatial Disorientation in Aviation Pilots

To this knowledge, this is the first study to review exhaustively and describe the main factors involved in spatial disorientation and optical illusions affecting aviation pilots.

Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation

Sense and Avoid Requirements for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Using a Target Level of Safety Approach

A framework to develop effectiveness requirements for any SAA system by linking UAS characteristics and operating environments to midair collision risk quantified by a fatality rate is proposed using afatality rate metri…

Spatial disorientation mishap trends in the U.S. Air force 1993-2013.

Results indicate that future SD research should be focused on fighter/attack and helicopter platforms, and class A mishaps involving spatial disorientation had a higher rate as a function of hours flown for helicopter an…

Experience of head and neck theatre staff and attitudes to human factors using an aviation-based analysis and classification system--a pilot survey.

A questionnaire on human factors based on an aviation model to 140 head and neck medical and ancillary staff who work in operating theatres in 3 large UK hospitals will help to identify multi-system deficiencies that can…

Spatial disorientation: more than just illusion.

Pilots should be sensitized to the physical and mental performance decrement during sensory conflicts and inadequacies and special attention should be drawn to the properties of various flight displays that may contribut…

Spatial disorientation: decades of pilot fatalities.

Funding is needed to further SD research, to fund SD training, as well as amend the current mishap investigation process to better articulate SD contributions in aviation accidents.

Galvanic vestibular stimulation as an analogue of spatial disorientation after spaceflight.

GVS was an effective analogue of decrements in postflight Shuttle pilot performance in ground-based simulators using pseudorandom bilateral bipolar galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) during Shuttle landing simulations…

Rolling into spatial disorientation: simulator demonstration of the post-roll (Gillingham) illusion.

The results show that the effects of the post-roll illusion on aircraft control can be demonstrated adequately in a flight simulator using an attitude control task, and is relevant for spatial disorientation training pro…

Visual spatial disorientation: revisiting the black hole illusion.

This review explores the origins of the BHI and describes several mishaps involving it, and it is already clear that pilots should be taught that confidence in their visual capabilities during impoverished viewing condit…

Survey of spatial disorientation in military pilots and navigators.

This preliminary survey has shown that SD is still a significant hazard of military flying, and shows that the postal questionnaire is a useful tool for assessing how SD training and experience may benefit the recognitio…

An instrumentation solution for reducing spatial disorientation mishaps.

The Tactical Situation Awareness System (TSAS) is an array of tactile stimulators arranged in columns and rows on a garment that a pilot wears on the torso and limbs that provides intuitive orientation information to air…

Handbook of aviation human factors

FATIGUE AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS. IN: HANDBOOK OF AVIATION HUMAN FACTORS

It is emphasized that a careful consideration of the temporal structure of body functions and a proper timing of work activities can be of paramount importance to ensure high levels of performance efficiency, decreasing …

Spatial disorientation episodes among F-15C pilots during Operation Desert Storm.

A scientific survey was created and administered to 96 F-16C combat pilots after their return from Desert Storm to determine where in the flight profile, and under what conditions, spatial disorientation episodes occurre…

Spatial disorientation-implicated accidents in Canadian forces, 1982-92.

A retrospective study of SD-implicated category A accidents in the Canadian Forces during 1982-92, finding that there were two episodes of vestibular origin, involving the somatogravic illusion, and all but two fell into…

Spatial disorientation in naval aviation mishaps: a review of class A incidents from 1980 through 1989.

Results indicate that Types I and II SD could be identified as causal factors in all 33 Class A mishaps, and most Type I SD was experienced primarily by helicopter pilots at night while most Type II SD incidents affected…

The problem of spatial disorientation.

Increased effort should be exerted to deal appropriately with all factors in human physiology and in aircraft design that contribute to spatial disorientation as a hazard of flight.