Aerospace HFE
Latest update: 2010/06/08
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Introduction / Background
The Technical Committee on AeroSpace Human Factors and Ergonomics (TCASHFE) is a scientific committee of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The formation of the TCASHFE is endorsed by the IEA at its Annual Council Meeting. Its mission is to promote the development of Human Factors/Ergonomics in aerospace, and the application of derived knowledge, methods and tools for the betterment of research, educational and professional services. In particular, it focuses on aviation and space systems, including aircraft and spacecraft design, and the activities of system development, operations (whether on the ground or in air or space), maintenance, regulation and training.
Goals and objectives
TCASHFE goals are the following: help address various scientific issues within aerospace, cooperate across disciplines to advance the state-of-the-art of knowledge and applications, and to set standards for society and industry use.
A main goal is to rationalize what is currently done in the world in aeronautics and space with respect to human factors and ergonomics (HFE). Air and space are special domains where human beings have special relations with appropriate machines. Human-machine interaction in aerospace systems relates to safety, performance and comfort. HFE should then be analyzed with respect to these three dimensions.
We will try to establish a basis for taking into account human factors and use cognitive ergonomics and engineering more effectively and widely during aerospace life-cycles. Human factors people and cognitive engineers are too often involved too late to have any real effective say in the design, and thus can only apply “band-aids” to fundamentally broken systems. This poses two challenges for our community: (1) getting the broader engineering design communities to include us more substantially in all stages of design; and (2) our own community figuring out what we would do with such an opportunity, since the dominance of our methods focus more on evaluation to identify problems, often leaving solution of these problems to only be inferred rather than systematically designed.
Organizational structure
The TCASHFE is organized into working groups (WG) related to timely, relevant, important and inescapable topics. These WG will be set up with respect to the motivation, leadership and availability of the WG leaders. The WG leader reports to the TC Chair.
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Chair Guy André Boy, PhD Fellow of the Air and Space Academy Chief Scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Center Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Cell: +1 321-298-2374 University Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Human-Centered Design Director of the Human-Centered Design Institute Florida Institute of Technology 150 West University Boulevard Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975, USA Tel: +1 321-674-7631 Email: gboy@fit.edu URL: https://services.fit.edu/profiles/profile.php?value=528 |
Members
Deborah Boehm-Davis, George Mason University, USA
Don Harris, Cranfield University, UK
Wen-Chi Li, National Defense University, Taiwan
Nick McDonald, Trinity College, Ireland
Oliver Straeter, Universität Kassel, Germany
Matthew Thomas, University of South Australia, Australia
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The TCASHFE will organize working groups (WGs), which are led by a TC member, who can then appoint other members. The WG leader reports to the TC Chair.
The TCASHFE has three main roles:
1. to discuss issues related to the TC’s focus and activity plan. The discussion can be held online via mechanisms such as electronic mail, skype, yahoo groups or similar interactive settings. Offline meetings can be scheduled at conferences where several TC members participate. Discussions should be held at regular intervals, at least quarterly.
2. to coordinate research, practice and standards issues pertaining to the TC domain through networking and collaboration with associated bodies such as ISO, ILO, WHO, ICOH and so forth.
3. to organize scientific events endorsed or co-sponsored by IEA. This can be in the form of a conference, workshop, symposium, panel and demonstration. The outcome of the event should be disseminated to IEA in the form of proceedings, technical reports, guidelines, and so forth.
Actions planned for the short-term and long-term
The TCASHFE is expected to support the IEA triennial congress by offering one or several scientific paper sessions or a panel discussion. The TCASHFE is responsible for soliciting and reviewing papers. The TCASHFE should also host a meeting at the Congress by inviting members and non-members with similar interests, including students. To make a meeting venue available, the TCASHFE should inform the STP (Science Technology & Practice) Chair at least three months prior to the Congress.
There will be at least one face-to-face meeting per year (we need to decide when according to the various conferences where we might be all participating and take the benefit of the travel. In 2009, we will have two TCASHFE meetings to facilitate the attendance of members and interested people:
1. During HCI International that will be held in San Diego, California, USA on July 19-24
2. During the IEA World Congress that will be held in Beijing, China on August 9-14, 2009.
If you would like to attend one of theses meetings, please send an email to gboy@ihmc.us. We will keep you informed with the precise dates and locations in both San Diego and Beijing. In the meantime, we will organize teleconferences regularly.
First proposed action
With recent efforts like the SESAR program in Europe or the NextGen program in the United States that attempt to redefine the way aviation will be managed and safety of the overall aviation system will be assured, in particular the boundaries of the systems change as well as their interdependency increases. These impacts on safety need much better coordination between all aviation partners worldwide and much better input from the safety R&D community.
The main objective is to better coordinate and aligned on a worldwide level the various research efforts going on in the area of safety assessment in particular regarding the human element in Safety.
Participants may include researchers and decision makers in Aviation from ICAO, EASA, EUROCONTROL, FAA, NASA...
The next HCI-Aero conference will be organized in Melbourne, Florida, in October 2010.
Latest update: 2010/01/13
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