• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.225-235
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• 2016

Objective: The aim of this study is to model all levels of situation awareness (SA), which would be able to predict situation awareness quantitatively. Background: When measuring situation awareness, directly measuring SA methods such as SAGAT and SART have been utilized. Several approaches (cognitive modeling approaches) were introduced to model SA but level 3 SA was not completed. For real-life situation, however, it is necessary to detect the problematic level of SA rather than overall SA. Therefore, we proposed a new model of all levels of SA in this study. Method: In order to model all levels of SA, this study chose factors in ACT-R architecture through literature review. ATC (Air Traffic Control)-related simulation task was video-taped to analyze human behaviors in order to model all levels of SA including level 3. Results: As a result, regression analyses show that cognitive activities (neural activations) represented for all levels of SA were highly correlated with SAGAT. Conclusion: In conclusion, neural activations in ACT-R could be proved to be effective to model all levels of SA. Application: Our SA model could be used to predict all levels of SA quantitatively without directly measuring the SA of operators.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.54-60
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• 2007

According to U.S. NTSB, from 1989 to 1992, Situation Awareness (SA) was a major factor causing 80% of all aircraft accidents in scheduled airlines. Therefore, the prevention of accidents through effective training in SA became a pivot in aviation safety. Furthermore, during the past 10 years, since all helicopter accidents in Korea were caused by the factors related to SA, an appropriate countermeasure has been required. This study, which uses survey data, examines various factors related to SA that could affect helicopter pilots. Recognition of and countermeasures for the factors in emergency situations were analyzed. The results show that, while the factors associated with SA and vigilance have lower correlations with each other, the factors associated with recognition, diagnosis, and generation and implementation of solutions have higher correlations with each other. Thus, the results demonstrate the need for better SA through educational training.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2011

According to U.S. NTSB, from 1989 to 1992, Situation Awareness(SA) was a major factor causing 80% of all aircraft accidents in scheduled airlines. Therefore, the prevention of accidents through effective training in SA became a pivot in aviation safety. Furthermore, during the past 10 years, since all helicopter accidents in Korea were caused by the factors related to SA, an appropriate countermeasure has been required. This study, which uses survey data, examines various factors related to SA that could affect helicopter pilots. Common characteristics of situation awareness factors are that the result from the independent variables which are flight time, duty period and age of a first officer is statistically significant with the result from the independent variables of an instructor pilot's. However, only experience is statistically significant independent variable for factors influencing decision making in emergency situations, but anxiety, expectation and comprehension are not significant.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1261-1270
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• 2022

This study was conducted to investigate the possibility of using gaze entropy to evaluate an operator's situation awareness in an emergency accident situation of a nuclear power plant. Gaze entropy can be an effective measure for evaluating an operator's situation awareness at a nuclear power plant because it can express gaze movement as a single comprehensive number. In order to determine the relationship between situation awareness and gaze entropy for an emergency accident situation of a nuclear power plant, an experiment was conducted to measure situation awareness and gaze entropy using simulators created for emergency accident situations LOCA, SGTR, SLB, and LOV. The experiment was to judge the accident situation of nuclear power plants presented in the simulator. The results showed that situation awareness and Shannon, dwell time, and Markov entropy had a significant negative correlation, while visual attention entropy (VAE) did not show any significant correlation with situation awareness. The results determined that Shannon entropy, dwell time entropy, and Markov entropy could be used as measures to evaluate situation awareness.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2009

According to U.S. NTSB, accidents of scheduled airliners from 1989 to 1992 caused by the lack of SA consisted of approximately 80% of all aircraft accidents, which emphasized the importance of maintaining SA. Furthermore, all of the 27 domestic helicopter accidents between 1996 and 2005 were related with pilot SA and of these, 21 events were directly attributed to pilot errors. Therefore, SA is a matter of great importance to pilots. Following the pre-study of the relations between SA and pilot qualifications, the results of this study which deals with SA and pilot working careers show the statistical importance between those two factors.

• 감성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2002

기억은 상황인식을 개발하고 유지하는 데 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구에서는 비행상황 인식의 민감도에 영향을 주는 기억과정들이 조종사의 전문성 정도에 따라 어떻게 다른지를 조사하였다. 실험 1에서는 조종사가 상황정보를 회상하기 위해 사용하는 여러 기억과정들을 비교하였다. 즉, 조종실 계기판에 제시되는 상이한 형태(공간적 및 언어적)의 상황정보에 관한 조종사의 기억을 즉각회상과 지연 회상법으로 평가하였다. 실험 2에서는 조종사의 상황인식 민감도를 측정하였고, 그 민감도와 실험 1에서 수집한 여러 회상기억 측정치들과의 상관관계를 조사하였다. 두 실험결과를 요약하면, 전문성 효과가 상황정보의 활동기억보다는 장기기억에서 나타났고, 상황인식 민감도를 높이는 데 요구되는 상황정보의 기억표상이 전문성 정도에 따라 달랐다. 실험결과의 이론적 설명이 심리학의 전문성 이론을 중심으로 논의되었다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2009

Due to the lack of navigable airspace caused by worldwide air traffic increases, air traffic control(ATC) services are becoming more complex, which results in the increase of aircraft accidents. To cope with these challenges, major aviation institutes abroad are actively conducting research regarding the human factors affecting controllers but as of late, no such specialized activities have been found in Korea. Due to the dynamic attributes of ATC operations, management of controller's situation awareness(SA) and workload, and knowledge on the impact of abnormal aircraft to controllers are very important. Furthermore, using actual flight data of each country will lead to valuable results, because individually, it has different airspace characteristics and air traffic volumes. This study assumed that air traffic difficulties would affect the controller's SA and workload. To testify the above hypothesis, the abnormal air traffic situations are simulated by using ATC simulator. The findings indicated that the effect of traffic situations containing abnormal aircraft on the controller's SA and workload, it led to demand increase and supply decrease in SA, and increased mental demand, temporal demand, effort and mean workload score in the workload.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2023년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.194-195
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• 2023

최근 자율운항선박 기술은 해양 분야에서 선박의 안전과 효율, 경제성을 위한 핵심기술로 주목받고 있다. 육상에서의 원격제어를 위해 항해사의 상황인식(Situation Awareness, SA)에 의한 의사결정은 선박 충돌회피에 중요하게 작용할 것으로 예상된다. 이 연구에서는 충돌상황에 대한 항해사의 의사결정 시간을 측정하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.247-270
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• 2009

This paper reviews studies on information searching behavior in process control systems and discusses some implications learned from previous studies for use in human factors studies on nuclear power plants (NPPs) main control rooms (MCRs). Information searching behavior in NPPs depends on expectancy, value, salience, and effort. The first quantitative scanning model developed by Senders for instrument panel monitoring considered bandwidth (change rate) of instruments as a determining factor in scanning behavior. Senders' model was subsequently elaborated by other researchers to account for value in addition to bandwidth. There is also another type of model based on the operator's situation awareness (SA) which has been developed for NPP application. In these SA-based models, situation-event relations or rules on system dynamics are considered the most significant factor forming expectancy. From the review of previous studies it is recommended that, for NPP application, (1) a set of symptomatic information sources including both changed and unchanged symptoms should be considered along with bandwidth as determining factors governing information searching (or visual sampling) behavior; (2) both data-driven monitoring and knowledge-driven monitoring should be considered and balanced in a systematic way; (3) sound models describing mechanisms of cognitive activities during information searching tasks should be developed so as to bridge studies on information searching behavior and design improvement in HMI; (4) the attention-situation awareness (A-SA) modeling approach should be recognized as a promising approach to be examined further; and (5) information displays should be expected to have totally different characteristics in advanced control rooms. Hence much attention should be devoted to information searching behavior including human-machine interface (HMI) design and human cognitive processes.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.375-384
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• 2016

본 연구는 해상교통관제사(이하 'VTS 관제사')의 해상교통관제(Vessel Traffic Service: 이하 'VTS') 수행 속성을 상황인식(situation awareness: 이하 'SA')과 관련된 세부 과제들의 수행 빈도와 SA 역량에 대한 주관적 평가의 측면에서 살펴보기 위해 실시되었다. SA 세부 과제들에 대한 수행 빈도 자료는 3개 VTS 센터의 VTS 관제사가 보인 VTS 수행을 직접 관찰하여 수집하였고, SA 역량에 대한 주관적 평가 자료는 18개 VTS 센터에서 근무하는 VTS 관제사를 대상으로 설문조사법을 통해 수집하였다. 수행 빈도 자료는 SA의 세 수준과 각 세부 과제에 따라 비교하였고, 주관적 평가 점수에 대해서는 VTS 관제사의 성별과 근무경력을 추가적으로 고려하여 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, VTS 관제사는 SA 수준 중 정보지각에 해당하는 과제를 가장 높은 비율로 수행하였고, 이어서 정보통합과 예측에 해당하는 과제들을 각각 유사한 수준으로 수행하는 것이 관찰되었다. 둘째, VTS 관제사는 정보를 획득하거나 통합하는 역량에 비해 미래 상황을 예측하는 역량을 상대적으로 더 낮게 평가하였다. 셋째, 성별 차이를 비교한 결과, 남성 VTS 관제사는 여성에 비해 더 높은 수준으로 자신의 SA 역량을 평가하였다. 넷째, 성별로 근무경력에 따른 주관적 평가 차이를 비교한 결과, 남성의 경우 근무경력이 15년 이상인 VTS 관제사는 5년 미만의 VTS 관제사에 비해 SA의 모든 수준에 걸쳐 상대적으로 더 높은 주관적 평가를 보였으나, 여성의 경우는 근무경력에 따른 주관적 평가에서의 차이가 관찰되지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 VTS 관제사의 SA 과제 수행 빈도와 SA에 대한 주관적 평가가 SA 수준과 개인차 변인에 따라 달라질 수 있음을 시사한다.