Job Analysis and Cognitive Task Analysis of Air Traffic Controllers

Author(s):  
Rosemarie Reynolds ◽  
Kelly Neville
1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (17) ◽  
pp. 1326-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Redding ◽  
John R. Cannon ◽  
Thomas L. Seamster

The Federal Aviation Administration has embarked on a major curriculum redesign effort to improve the training efficiency of en route air traffic controllers. Included in this effort was a comprehensive cognitive task analysis conducted in several phases, spanning several years. Eight different types of data collection and analysis procedures were used, resulting in an integrated model of controller expertise. This paper provides a description of controller expertise, and describes the training program under development. This is one of the first examples of cognitive task analysis being applied to study expertise in complex cognitive tasks performed in time-constrained, multi-tasking environments.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Chang-Sun Song ◽  
Hyuk-Jin Kwon ◽  
Kyeong-Tae Kim ◽  
Jin-Ha Kim ◽  
Dong-Sik Lee ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Seamster ◽  
Richard E. Redding ◽  
John R. Cannon ◽  
Joan M. Ryder ◽  
Janine A. Purcell

Author(s):  
Brian Hilburn

Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is a flightdeck-based technology aimed at helping aircraft avoid proximate traffic. TCAS information has traditionally not been presented to the air traffic controller. A 2002 German midair collision was triggered, in part, by incompatible air traffic control (ATC) and TCAS clearances. Largely in response to this accident, attention has focused in recent years on the potential benefits of “downlinking” to the controller TCAS Resolution Advisories (RAs) in near real time. Such presentations, it is thought, could benefit situation awareness and joint decision making between controller and pilot. A cognitive task analysis (CTA) was recently conducted into the present-day and future RA Downlink (RAD) operational concepts. On the basis of functional task description and cognitive walkthroughs, CTA assessed the impact of various specific non-nominal events (e.g. pilot reports RA, but does not initiate an evasive maneuver). Finally, a set of cognitive elements and potential error mechanisms was identified.


Author(s):  
Richard E. Redding ◽  
Thomas L. Seamster

This study is the first cognitive task analysis of the air traffic controller student evaluation process. The goal was to identify cognitive and behavioral rule-based measures for assessing student simulator performance. A knowledge structure analysis of experienced instructor's sorting of assessment concepts was followed by a protocol analysis of instructor's simulator training sessions with students. The data were translated into IF-THEN cognitive and/or behavioral assessment rules for use in an automated evaluation or intelligent tutoring system. Traditional summary measures of performance activate the rules, providing real-time diagnosis of student performance. This event-driven approach determines not only that some action is incorrect but also what is missing from the student's knowledge or skill base.


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