Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the instruments and procedures found on state-of-the-art commercial airline flight decks. It argues that the flight deck as a whole should be viewed as a cognitive system and shows how design decisions may affect patterns of information flow which, in turn, produce cognitive consequences for the flight deck system. Some notable successes and persistent problems are described and a set of design principles that distinguish the successes from failures are presented. Finally, the application of the design principles to longstanding problems illustrates how these principles can lead to new instruments with desirable system properties.
Author: Edwin Hutchins
Institution: University of California San Diego
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1479964914