Human Performance on the Flight Deck

Harris (HFI Solutions Ltd, UK) presents a systemic overview of the role of human factors in aviation, covering scientific understandings of human information processing, workload, situation awareness, decision making, error, and individual differences; human-associated issues of pilot selection, training and simulation, stress, fatigue, alcohol, and environmental stressors; machine-associated factors such as display design, aircraft control, automation, and human-computer interaction on the flight deck; and managerial issues such as flight deck safety management, airline safety management, and incident and accident investigation. The study seeks to bring the study of human factors beyond sole attention to safety and demonstrate its application to increased operational efficiency. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Don Harris is Managing Director of HFI Solutions Ltd and Visiting Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Prior to founding the HFI Solutions Don was Professor of Aerospace Human Factors at Cranfield University. He has been involved in the design and certification of flight deck interfaces; worked in the safety assessment of helicopter operations for North Sea oil exploration and exploitation and was an accident investigator on call to the British Army Division of Army Aviation. Don is a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors and a Chartered Psychologist. He is also a member of the UK Human Factors National Technical Committee for Aerospace and Defence. In 2006 Don received the Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze award for work leading to advances in aerospace and in 2008 was part of the Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre team that received the UK Ergonomics Society President's Medal 'for significant contributions to original research, the development of methodology and the application of knowledge within the field of ergonomics'. Don is author or editor of several other Ashgate volumes, including 'Human Factors for Civil Flight Deck Design', 'Contemporary Issues in Human Factors and Aviation Safety' (with Helen Muir) and 'Modelling Command and Control' (with Neville Stanton and Chris Baber).