@article{ref1,
title="Measurement of temporal awareness in air traffic control",
journal="Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society annual meeting",
year="2009",
author="Rantanen, Esa M.",
volume="53",
number="1",
pages="6-10",
abstract="Temporal awareness, or level 3 situation awareness, is critical to successful control of air traffic, yet the construct remains ill-defined and difficult to measure. This research sought evidence for air traffic controllers' awareness of temporal characteristics of their tasks in data from a high-fidelity system evaluation simulation. Five teams of controllers worked on four scenarios with different traffic load. Several temporal parameters were defined for each task controllers performed during a simulation run and their actions on the tasks were timed relative to them. Controllers showed a strong tendency to prioritize tasks according to a first come, first served principle. This trend persisted as task load increased. Also evident was awareness of the urgency of tasks, as tasks with impending closing of a window of opportunity were performed before tasks that had longer time available before closing of the window.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2169-5067",
doi="10.1177/154193120905300103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120905300103"
}