Towards a digital control tower: the use of augmented reality tools to innovate interaction modes
Paper ID
SIDs-2022-052
Conference
SESAR Innovation Days
Year
2022
Theme
Human Factors
Project Name
SESAR 2020 IR Wave 2 project PJ05-W2 DTT
Keywords:
Air Traffic Controller, Attention Guidance, Augmented Reality, Control Tower, Human Machine Interface, multimodal interaction, Solution 97.1
Authors
Ramona Santarelli, Sara Bagassi, Marzia Corsi, Jürgen Teutsch, Raquel Garcia Lasheras, Manuel Angel Amaro Carmona and Alan Ross Groskreutz
DOI
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Project Number
874470
Abstract
This paper describes the EU-funded project “Digital Technologies for Tower” (PJ05-W2 DTT) Solution 97.1 validation exercises by focusing on the simulation platforms and exploited technologies to demonstrate how Virtual/Augmented Reality along with Tracking Labels, Air Gestures and Attention Guidance can allow the air traffic controller to increase head-up time, even in low visibility conditions, to lower the time to react to critical or alerting situations, to reduce the workload, and to improve Situational Awareness and productivity. Important guidelines to further enhance the proposed solutions achieving higher levels of maturity can be drawn starting from the results obtained during the Sol 97.1 validation campaign.