Visual scanning strategies in the cockpit are modulated by pilots' expertise: A flight simulator study.

ABSTRACT: During a flight, pilots must rigorously monitor their flight instruments since it is one of the critical activities that contribute to update their situation awareness. The monitoring is cognitively demanding, but is necessary for timely intervention in the event of a parameter deviation. Many studies have shown that a large part of commercial aviation accidents involved poor cockpit monitoring from the crew. Research in eye-tracking has developed numerous metrics to examine visual strategies in fields such as art viewing, sports, chess, reading, aviation, and space. In this article, we propose to use both basic and advanced eye metrics to study visual information acquisition, gaze dispersion, and gaze patterning among novices and pilots. The experiment involved a group of sixteen certifie

SUBMITTER: Lounis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891757 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature