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Investigating Pilots’ Operational Behaviours While Interacting with Different Types of Inceptors

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Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (HCII 2022)

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There are different designs of inceptors applied in the modern flight deck. How do pilots define how to precisely control the aircraft as their intention? Ten pilots have been asked to take part in the flight simulation trials. They were given tasks to execute using sidestick, Xbox gamepad and touchscreen controller and provide feedback using the System Usability Scale. The aim was to investigate the feasibility of replacing conventional inceptors in aircraft. The results have shown that there is a potential in introducing alternate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods in the flight deck, especially in terms of learnability, however there is still a lot of work before it happens. This paper summarises the ‘pilot study’ results and shows the potential for further research.

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Co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund (grant POWR.03.02.00-00-I029) and E-PILOTS project (Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 831993) and Powerplant Integration of Novel Engine Systems (PINES) project, UKRI project reference 113263.

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  1. Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Wojciech Tomasz Korek

  2. Dynamics, Simulation and Control Group, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

    Wojciech Tomasz Korek & Mudassir Lone

  3. Safety and Accident Investigation Centre, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

    Wen-Chin Li

  4. Centre for Aeronautics, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

    Linghai Lu

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Korek, W.T., Li, WC., Lu, L., Lone, M. (2022). Investigating Pilots’ Operational Behaviours While Interacting with Different Types of Inceptors. In: Harris, D., Li, WC. (eds) Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06086-1_24

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