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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

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.