Last update: December 23, 1998
Held July 14-16, 1998
Renton, WA
Overview
Report - draft
- Discussion/report outline for mode awareness workshop report
Workshop Attendees
The following is a list of the workshop attendees:
Attendee Contact List
Information presented during workshop
The following is an outline of the information that was presented during this workshop.
Also included here are slides from several of the presentations and some related reports.
The presentation slides are available here as webpages and the reports are available
as PDF files (indicated with the 
symbol). The PDF files can be viewed
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- Overview of Mode Awareness Issues
- Introductions and Workshop Overview - Kathy Abbott, FAA
- Overview of Mode Awareness Issues - Elizabeth Lyall, Research Integrations, Inc.
- Other Mode Awareness Resources mentioned in meeting:
- Airline Experience
- Airline experience in crew qualification and ops - Mike Polansky, United Airlines
- Air Transport Association Automation Subcommitee - Tom Chidester, American Airlines
- Air Transport Association (1997). Towards an Operational Philosophy and Model Training Program
for FMC-Generation Aircraft. Air Transport Association.
( 24KB PDF file)
- Air Transport Association (1998). Potential Knowledge, Policy,
or Training Gaps Regarding Operation of FMS-Generation Aircraft: Second Report. Air Transport Association.
( 57KB PDF file)
- Certification Experience
- Certification Experience - Guy Thiel, Gene Bollin, George Lydane, FAA
- Methods from Research
- Fundamental Issues in Reducing Human Error in complex Flight Automation Systems - John Hansman, MIT
- Human Interaction With Automated Control Systems: A Formal Approach - Asaf Degani, NASA Ames
- Formal Modeling and Visualization of System Modes - Steven P. Miller & James N. Ports, Rockwell Collins
- Mode Confusion Analysis - Nancy Leveson, MIT/UW/Safeware Inc.
- Aiding Vertical Navigation Understanding - Mike Feary, NASA Ames & Lance Sherry, Honeywell
- Feary, M., McCrobie, D., Alkin, M., Sherry, L., Polson, P., Palmer, E., and McQuinn, N. (1998).
Aiding Vertical Guidance Understanding
- Other methods mentioned during meeting:
- Evaluation
- Evaluation process - Terry Abbott, NASA Langley
Last update: December 23, 1998
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