Research On Correlation Between Eye-hand Coordination Pattern And Cognitive Process Of Pilot In Flight Deck

Human factors have been main reason of flight accidents, in whichcrew human factors plays a leading role in flight deck. Pilot must receivekinds of visual information and senses to acquire status of airplane, andmanipulate controllers to keep airplane operate safely. There is no doubtthat pilot’s eye-hand coordination influence reliability and safety ofairplane. Human factors discovers and applies information about humanbehavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design oftools, machines, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe,comfortable, and effective human use. Therefore, applying human factorsapproach to flight deck design will not only assure the lowest safety levelof airplane, but also improve quality and operation performance of airplane.With a background in flight deck design, according to deeplyunderstanding of design philosophy and configuration, applying humanfactors approach, this paper focuses on pilot’s eye-hand coordination ininformation process model. Eye-hand coordination is coordinated controlof eye movement with hand movement, and the processing of visual inputto guide reaching and grasping along with the use of peoprioception of thehands to guide the eyes. In simple terms, eye-hand coordination involvesthe coordinated vision and hand movement to execute a task. This paperset up a platform to simulate real flight deck, and design a series ofexperiments to research on pilot’s eye-hand coordination. The finalexperiments’ results show the effects of display pattern and differentcontroller location on people’s operation performance, which is useful toflight deck design and certification compliance method. In addition, the data of people’s operation performance are also available as a supplementto anthropometry.