Human effectiveness requires an understanding of, and

integrated approach to, the aviation professional.

To optimize how the aviation professional operates in his

environment, knowledge about his abilities and limitations

and the environment he operates in needs to be integrated

in comprehensive solutions. Increasing human effectiveness

therefore spans all aspects of training, human factors and

simulation. This includes training design, training media, and

the human-machine interface. These knowledge areas are

actively tied together to achieve optimum efficiency through

synergy.

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Human factors are vital in the safety

and effectiveness of air transport

and military air operations. NLR is at

the forefront of research on human

effectiveness.

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Training, Simulation and Operator Performance

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Through years of research and development, NLR has developed

a large body of knowledge and practical experience on human

effectiveness. This expertise is divided in three main knowledge

areas:

• Education and training

• Modeling and simulation

• Operator performance

Education and training: Training offers the possibility to optimize efficiency and get the

best out of both user and equipment. NLR offers scientific research

into the full range of aspects that revolve around training of

cockpit crew, air traffic controllers, UAS operators and support

staff. By developing and utilizing innovative training solutions,

and integrating training media and training effectiveness

measurement tools, full potentials can be unlocked.

Modeling and simulation: The full potential of modeling and simulation for training and

validation is increasingly recognized in the aviation industry.

Offering a realistic, safe, controllable, and relatively inexpensive

experimental environment, simulation can seamlessly be

integrated into modern training designs. NLR continually develops

and improves the models, methods and systems needed for

an optimal training effectiveness. In the development of new

operational concepts, doctrines and capabilities, modeling and

simulation also opens the door to a better understanding of

complex, future situations.

Operator performance: The way humans interact with their equipment largely determines

their effectiveness and inherently the safety of the operation.

Determining the optimum human-machine interface can provide

important advantages to the pilots, air traffic controllers, UAV

operators and many others that utilise this equipment on a

day to day basis. NLR combines in-depth knowledge of human

effectiveness and the work domain to design the user interfaces

of tomorrow. A wide range of measurement tools is used to study

e.g. visual sampling behaviour, situational awareness, and operator

status assessment for validation of new concepts or for the

purpose of adaptive and intuitive automation.

Key activities: • Performing research to optimize training effectiveness and efficiency

• Integration of knowledge and experience in working environments, training design and

training media into effective training solutions

• Finding the best fit between selection, training, training media and learning abilities

• Developing and improving the models, methods and systems needed for an optimal

training effectiveness

• Using modeling and simulation to open the door to a better understanding of complex,

future situations

• Improving safety and efficiency by determining the optimum human-machine interface

and/or concept of operation

• Measuring and gathering data to design the interfaces of tomorrow