En Route Controller Task Prioritization Research to Support CE-6 Human Performance Modeling Phase II: Analysis of High-Fidelity Simulation Data Final technical rept

摘要

This document describes research to follow up on a previous effort (Rantanen, Levinthal, & Yeakel, 2005) and to provide an empirical foundation for estimation of parameters for air traffic controller performance modeling efforts presently pursued by MA&D within the NASA DAG-TM CE-6 model development. The focus of the project was the task prioritization scheme used in these models. The experiment of Rantanen et al. (2005) tested methods for isolating controllers tasks for analysis, defining windows of opportunity (WOs) for each of them, and determining prioritization of tasks within a given epoch of time. This groundwork enabled investigation of task prioritization in more realistic setting than the experiment, in the context of full-fidelity evaluation simulations of Future En route WorkStation (FEWS) conducted during the summer of 2005. The simulations were extremely realistic and included a complete set of tasks for the participating controllers to perform. Similar data related to task prioritization as in the Rantanen et al. (2005) experiment were derived from the data collected from these simulations, allowing for a more complete picture of controllers task prioritization behavior and strategies to be painted.