General Principles

General Principles

• General Principles

• Introduction to Human Performance Module

• Fundamentals of Human Performance

• Individual Differences

• Social Psychology and Aviation

• A small amount of basic theory to help you to interpret the practical studies

New this year!

• New this year!

• An early session on human error

• …to provide a context for the module

Personal & Environmental Factors

• Personal & Environmental Factors

• Stress & Workload in Aviation I

• Stress & Workload in Aviation II

• Perceptual Issues in Aviation

• Situation Awareness

• Selection of Aviation Personnel

Training and Simulation

• Training and Simulation

• Simulation and Training

• Fundamentals of CRM Training

• Practical Aspects of CRM & LOFT

Systems Factors

• Systems Factors

• Aviation Ergonomics I

• Aviation Ergonomics II

The Human Factor in Aviation Accidents

• The Human Factor in Aviation Accidents

• Seminar: Flight Safety

• Prof Peter Jorna, former head of division at NLR Amsterdam

• Also an accident module at Henlow, providing a context for this module

• See also lectures on Sleep, Fatigue and Shift-Working

Perception is the process of acquiring, selecting, and organising sensory information

• Perception is the process of acquiring, selecting, and organising sensory information

• The most important perceptual processes for aviation are those associated with vision and hearing

• 1 The ear and the auditory system

• balance and the vestibular system
• localisation of sound and identification of source

• 2 The visual system

• bottom-up processing
• top-down processing
• cues to depth perception

• Balance. The vestibular system of the inner ear detects angular and linear accelerations of the head

• Hearing. To detect sounds, to determine the location of their sources and to recognise the identity of these sources

Cockpit design

• Cockpit design

• The cockpit relies heavily on the presentation of visual information. Adoption of auditory signals may reduce the workload experienced by pilots in the visual domain.

• Localisation of auditory warnings

• Similar sounding warnings emanating from similar areas may cause confusion
• Adoption of white noise bursts within ambulance sirens

Visual modality is obviously extremely important in aviation. But can we always trust our eyes?

• Visual modality is obviously extremely important in aviation. But can we always trust our eyes?

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