Situational Awareness

Situational awareness is the perception, understanding, and projection of the environment, the system, and its states relevant to the mission and its goals. It's a complex concept that often plays a role in aircraft accidents and incidents, yet is not fully understood — many different methods have been proposed to measure and evaluate it, and many influence factors (and their magnitude) are unknown.

This research investigates specific influence factors — such as noise or certain system failures — and their impact, combining different measurement methods to find indicators for a loss of situation awareness. It seeks to correlate these methods with flight data, improve understanding, and enhance training in situational-awareness-related aspects. Ideally, this data-driven approach will enable better training for situational awareness and eventually allow prediction of critical situations and loss of situational awareness.

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