Flight Eye Tracking Assistant (FETA): Proof of Concept

Lounis, Christophe; Peysakhovich, Vsevolod; Causse, Mickaël

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_66

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“…The researchers went ahead and developed a Flight Eye Tracking Assistant (FETA) proof of concept, which was an embedded system with the capability of evaluating online visual cockpit monitoring. The concept was tested using 5 pilots and the results showed that FETA was efficient in redirecting attention towards the critical flight instruments (Lounis et al, 2019). Wang and Sun (2013) tested the use of eye tracking in fatigue measurement.…”

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“…In this scenario, the timestamp of eye data and dynamic display data can be synchronized and aligned spatially and the knowledge obtained used to improve aviation outcomes (Wee et al, 2019). Reynal et al (2016) 16 pilots (8 Captains and 8 First Officers) Pertech Reynal et al (2017) 10 airline captains Pertech Dehais et al (2017) 12 participants (captains and first officers) Pertech Peysakhovich et al 2018-- Lounis et al (2019) 12 pilots Smart Assessment Wang and Sun 2013-FaceLAB Maxi and Stein (2013) 16 student pilots Dikablis Sibley et al (2015) 15 volunteers from the Naval Research Laboratory Tobii Li et al (2016) 35 participants (avionics engineers and pilots) ASL Peißl et al (2018) 79 papers from peer-reviewed journals - Guo et al (2018) 20 participants SVS Noelle et al (2018) 79 Navy and Marine Corps student pilots Gazepoint Table 1 summarizes some key features of the studies investigated in this review. These include the model of the eye tracker utilized and the number of participants used in the experimental study.…”

Section: Eye Tracking As An Assessment Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Use of Eye Tracking in Assessing Visual Attention

Ayiei

2020

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology

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In aviation, procedural errors persist despite pilots having the correct knowledge and ability to perform particular flight tasks. These errors can be attributed to diagnostic errors, inaccurate situational assessment and poor hazard awareness. Eye tracking has emerged as a technology that can be used to monitor pilot performance and provide insights into attentional distribution and the underlying decisional processes. The study used a systematic literature review based on the Preferred Reporting Items for systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRIMA) Statement. Relevant publications were searched from 25 databases. To search the databases, the study used the keywords "eye tracking", "eye tracking measurements", "eye tracking aviation safety" and "eye tracking pilot flight performance", as well as "eye tracking and pilot training" and "eye tracking and pilot assessment". From these databases, 48 publications were retrieved for analysis. Out of the 48, 33 were abstracts and 15 were full-texts. The 15 full-texts proceeded to systematic literature analysis. These studies were further divided to studies reporting the use of eye tracking as a training tool (7) and studies reporting the use of eye tracking as an assessment tool (8). The literature review demonstrates that eye tracking is a valid and effective tool that can provide quantitative data for flight performance and safety assessment. Continued growth in aircraft cockpit automation means that eye tracking remains an urgent and promising development in aviation research, especially in real-time eye tracking to predict and prevent pilot errors and in the integration of eye tracking technology in intelligent cockpit design.

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Section: Eye Tracking As An Assessment Toolmentioning

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The Use of Eye Tracking in Assessing Visual Attention

Ayiei

2020

Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology

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“…Therefore, undesired system states can be acknowledged before they become a time-critical problem. In the context of aircraft cockpits, (Lounis et al, 2020) developed an support system based on eye-tracking. By comparing pilot dwell times on different cockpit indicators to a database of standard gaze behavior, the adaptive system identified poor monitoring and triggered a vocal alert.…”

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Situation Awareness Adaptive Alerting in an Aircraft Cockpit: A Simulator Study

Schwerd¹,

Schulte²

2021

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The goal of this study was to develop an automated cockpit support system that is adaptive to the flight crew’s situation awareness (SA) estimated by online gaze analysis. Flight crew errors are often attributed to low SA. Online measurement of SA could be used to automatically guide the user’s attention for the sake of fewer errors and better performance.An eye-tracking based measure for SA was developed and used for the adaptive generation of alerts in a flight simulator. In an experiment, ten certified pilots conducted two trials with no and adaptive alerting. The experimental task involved tracking of flight parameters which were partially disturbed or changed at random times. Our online estimation of SA showed a strong correlation with observed pilot performance. With adaptive alerts, the average performance increased in those experimental tasks, where a situational change could not be predicted by participants. Also, adaptive alerts improved change detection and reduced the number of outliers, where a change was not noticed for an exceptionally long time. However, subjective rating was poor due to low transparency and false positives. SA-adaptive support can improve change detection performance in typical tasks on the flight deck. For a greater acceptance, pilots should be trained to understand the adaption policy.

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“…They monitored the attentional behavior of aircrew using a gaze tracker and developed a cockpit monitoring database that serves as an assessment tool. They expanded on their work by developing a flight eye-tracking assistant built on their database that uses thresholding of dwell times for areas of interest with audible alarms (Lounis, Peysakhovich, & Causse, 2020). While these previous works investigated physiology in the context of aviators, none explicitly address quality of gaze as observed by a subject matter expert.…”

Section: Physiology and Eye-tracking In Aviationmentioning

confidence: 99%