Display Techniques for Pilot Interactions with Intelligent Avionics: A Cognitive Approach

Abstract : Guidelines for the human factors engineering of the man-machine interface have traditionally focused on sensing and acting: i.e., display features and input devices that conform to human perceptual/motor capabilities and preferences. In recent years, however, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have introduced a new class of systems with which humans are required to interact: systems which attempt to replicate, or improve on, human reasoning. As intelligent systems are proposed for an expanding sphere of operational roles, attention has begun to turn to machine-assisted thought, and to the manner in which computer-implemented storage and transformation of information can be optimally interfaced with human knowledge representations and processing strategies. Human-computer interface design has become cognitive. This report is intended as a contribution to the emerging application of cognitive science to human-computer interaction.