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    Air traffic control automation: for humans or people?
    (Ashgate Publishing, 2005) Brooker, Peter
    Are air traffic controllers humans or people? At first sight, this seems a very odd question, given that ‘humans’ and ‘people’ are near-synonyms in the dictionary and everyday usage. However, in research on air traffic control (ATC) automation the phrase ‘human-centred’ is used to mean particular aspects of people: for example, it does not usually address their motivations for embracing change or cover organisational behaviour issues. The objective here is to try to understand how the fact that air traffic controllers are people – particular kinds of people – is likely to affect the introduction of automation. This examination takes as an example a suite of computer assistance tools for en route ATC. How would these tools need to change if the fact that controllers are ‘people’ is taken into account?
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    Controller workload, airspace capacity and future systems
    (Ashgate Publishing, 2003) Brooker, Peter
    In air traffic control (ATC), controller workload – or controller mental workload – is an extremely important topic. There have been many research studies, reports and reviews on workload (as it will be referred to here). Indeed, the joke is that researchers will produce ‘reviews of reviews’ (Stein, 1998). The present document necessarily has something of that flavour, and does review many of the ‘breakthrough’ research results, but there is a concentration on some specific questions about workload.
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    Thinking about downlink of resolution advisories from airborne collision avoidance systems.
    (Ashgate Publishing, 2004) Brooker, Peter
    One of the open questions about Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems (ACAS) is whether Resolution Advisory (RA) information should be automatically downlinked to the display of the controller handling the aircraft involved. The aim here is to see if a clear pathway for decision-makers can be derived from rational assessment using general safety principles and Human Factors guidelines, plus readily available data. Situational awareness principles indicate that RA downlink should be as simple as possible, consistent with improving safety, preferably using an existing display type. The proposed method for assessing the potential benefits and disadvantages of RA downlinking uses Airproxes, mainly because they represent occasions in which situational awareness is impaired, and a structured analysis of the effects of downlinking on the various kinds of Airprox, controller action and pilot report.