Cross-task cue utilisation and situational awareness in simulated air traffic control

Falkland, Emma C.; Wiggins, Mark W.

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2018.07.015

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“…Cue utilization was established from the echocardiography edition of EXPERTise 2.0 measures, based on the participants' performance across five tasks. Consistent with previous research (e.g., Brouwers et al, 2017;Falkland & Wiggins, 2019), a k-means cluster analysis delineated two groups and revealed a pattern of centroids which confirmed the hypothesis concerning the behaviors associated with differences in cue utilization. Thirteen participants recorded a pattern of behavior consistent with lower cue utilization while 28 participants recorded behavior that reflected higher cue utilization (see Table 2).…”

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Individual differences in echocardiography: Visual object recognition ability predicts cue utilization

Carrigan

Stoodley

Fernandez

et al. 2020

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Echocardiographers are highly specialised, skilled practitioners who play a critical role in medical imaging diagnostics. Yet, little is known about the cognitive and perceptual attributes of experts within this domain. This study was designed to examine the role of individual differences in expertise. Specifically, the contribution of a domain general visual expertise and pattern recognition, or cue utilization. Data were collected from 42 echocardiographers and 43 naïve participants. All of the participants competed the Novel Object Memory Test (NOMT). When compared, the echocardiographers were more accurate than the naïve participants. The echocardiographers also completed an echocardiography edition of the Expert Intensive Skills Evaluation 2.0, to establish behavioral indicators of context-related cue utilization. Those with relatively higher cue utilization performed more accurately on the NOMT, controlling for exposure. These results suggest that a general perceptual ability contributes to echocardiography potential and a sensitivity to cue-based learning may contribute to expertise.

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Section: Cue Utilizationsupporting

confidence: 87%

Individual differences in echocardiography: Visual object recognition ability predicts cue utilization

Carrigan

Stoodley

Fernandez

et al. 2020

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…A more recent study in vessel traffic also proposed a smart alarm system that involved various multimodal cues, including sound, geometric and haptic cues to enhance SA of operators (Li et al, 2019a). These collective findings might be explained by the fact that participants who demonstrate high cue utilisation have higher SA (Falkland and Wiggins, 2019).…”

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EEG-Based Analysis of Air Traffic Conflict: Investigating Controllers’ Situation Awareness, Stress Level and Brain Activity during Conflict Resolution

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The effects of air traffic conflict geometry have been well investigated in prior studies, particularly in the context of the pilot, though little in the context of the air traffic control officer (ATCO). No study to date has investigated the effects of conflict geometry on human factors variables of ATCOs through objective and physiological approaches. This study examines the effects of conflict geometries on ATCO situation awareness, stress level and brain activity during conflict resolution. Fifteen participants were instructed to resolve six different conflict geometries: crossing level, crossing non-level, converging level, converging non-level, overtaking level, and overtaking non-level. The results indicate that converging and crossing conflicts led to lower situation awareness (SA), higher stress level, and higher theta activation at the temporal and parietal lobes. Level conflict led to lower SA. The findings offer two implications, providing insights for the formal guidelines in ATC conflict resolution training and provision of inputs for the conflict resolution aid development.

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“…In practice, the results of the present study have implications for selection, training and task design in high risk, high consequence environments, where operators are required to manage interruptive tasks under higher workload conditions (Westbrook et al, 2018). For selection purposes, distinguishing higher from lower cue utilisation may provide opportunities to identify applicants who are more or less likely able to sustain greater performance while managing interruptions, particularly during the initial stages of skill acquisition where patterns of system behaviour have yet to be acquired (Falkland & Wiggins, 2019). Consequently, operators might be placed into separate workflow streams, where situations that are likely to involve interruptive tasks are restricted to those operators with relatively higher cue utilisation (Falkland et al, 2019).…”

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“…The reliability and construct validity of the driving edition of EXPERTise have been tested in a number of domains, where the typologies formed from performance across the combination of tasks have differentiated performance when learning to operate an Unmanned Aerial System (Wiggins, Brouwers, et al, 2014), a simulated rail control task (Brouwers, Wiggins, Helton, et al, 2016; Brouwers, Wiggins, Griffin, et al, 2017), a simulated air traffic control task (Falkland & Wiggins, 2019), and the management of interruptions during a simulated rail control task ( Falkland et al, 2019).…”

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Interruptions versus breaks: The role of cue utilisation in a simulated process control task

Falkland

Wiggins

Westbrook

2020

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Although interruptions and breaks are similar insofar as they both offer a momentary recess from the primary task, the premise for the activity in which the operator engages differs. Interruptions impose the requirement to direct resources to complete a task, while breaks offer the opportunity for suspended goal rehearsal. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in resumption lags following “interruptions” and “breaks,” and whether cue utilisation moderates this relationship. Seventy‐nine university students completed an assessment of cue utilisation and managed scheduled and unscheduled interruptions and breaks during a 35‐min rail control simulation. The analyses revealed that participants who recorded higher cue utilisation recorded shorter resumption lags following scheduled, rather than unscheduled interruptions. Participants who recorded lower cue utilisation recorded shorter resumption lags following breaks compared to interruptions, irrespective of the administration. The results suggest that scheduled interruptions and breaks offer the opportunity for suspended goal rehearsal.

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Cross-task cue utilisation and situational awareness in simulated air traffic control

Cited by 32 publications

References 36 publications

Individual differences in echocardiography: Visual object recognition ability predicts cue utilization

Individual differences in echocardiography: Visual object recognition ability predicts cue utilization

EEG-Based Analysis of Air Traffic Conflict: Investigating Controllers’ Situation Awareness, Stress Level and Brain Activity during Conflict Resolution

Interruptions versus breaks: The role of cue utilisation in a simulated process control task

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