The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) San
Francisco Section announces a seminar on Human Factors of Advanced Air
Traffic Management by Dr. Kevin Corker of San Jose State University.
This seminar will be held on May 3, 2000. The time for this presentation is 10
am to 12 noon. The venue of the seminar is Ballroom of Moffett Training and
Conference Center, Building 3 (Coordinates A3 in NASA map which can be
downloaded from http://www.arc.nasa.gov/about_ames/area_map.html
, at NASA Ames Research Center.
If you work at Ames and would like to be reminded of the seminar the day before,
please send an email to gchatterji@mail.arc.nasa.gov
.
If you do not work at Ames, the information provided below is for you. The main
gate of NASA Ames is on Moffett Field and can be reached from 101 North and
South, Central Express Way, and El Camino via Castro Street. At this time,
visits can only be arranged for US Citizens and Permanent Residents. If you plan
to attend this seminar, please send an email to gchatterji@mail.arc.nasa.gov
with your name, your residency status (citizen or permanent resident) and
affiliation. This will ensure that you will be reminded of the seminar and also
arrangements will be made for you with the badging office for your visit. Be
sure to bring a photo identification to show at the badging office.
ABSTRACT
Air Traffic Management (ATM) can be defined as the control of aircraft
and airspace system assets to assure safe, efficient, and flexible movement of
aircraft through international airspace. The process of ATM is fundamentally a
dynamic coordination of vehicle and airspace control. The human factors issues
associated with this complex system are similarly complex and diverse.
Human factors research is performed in broad categories as follows: training and
selection of personnel, design and development of controls and displays for
human use, development of automation and optimization decision support tools for
the operators, and human performance contribution to safety, human-system error
propagation, and human response to psycho-physiological stressors, situation
awareness, vigilance, crew and team coordination, and system dynamics and
stability. The research paradigms brought to bear to address the issues are
similarly broad extending from computational analyses and simulation through
empirical studies in laboratory and simulation to field studies, and large-scale
institutional demographic and ethnographic studies. The presentation will
describe the evolution of ATM, identify the human factors issues associated with
current and future operations and discuss the methodological implications of
these issues.
About the speaker
Kevin M. Corker
Associate Professor
Computer Information and Systems Engineering Department,
School of Engineering, San Jose State University
San Jose, California
Kevin Corker is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering in the San
Jose State University, where he is the Director of the Human Factors Engineering
Graduate Program. He received his Ph.D. in a joint program in Cognitive
Psychology Engineering Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Corker's major areas of research interest include human factors, man/machine
interface issues in control and display with concentration on computational
cognitive modeling. He has pursued study of human and intelligent-automation
interaction in large-scale Dynamic systems. His research approach combines
cognitive psychology, computational modeling, and systems engineering
disciplines. Dr. Corker was formerly the Deputy Director of the NASA Aerospace
Systems Capacity program.
For this abstract, biographical information and other AIAA San Francisco Section
activities you may want to bookmark your web site at: http://www.aiaa-sf.org.
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