EUROCONTROL, the SESAR Joint Undertaking and the United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) organised a technical interchange meeting (TIM) on the topic of Human-Systems Integration.
Each of the four days was dedicated to one of four topic. The sessions included a series of short presentations from US and European speakers, as well as a Q&A session. Virtual break-out rooms allowed participants to brainstorm on topics for US-European research collaboration. The presentations from each day are available for download below.
| Time | Session | Speakers |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome coffee | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome and context setting |
Laurent Renou, EUROCONTROL |
| Session 'Human-System Integration - Concepts and Tools' Session chair: Bernd Lorenz, EUROCONTROL |
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| 09:45 - 10:25 | The role of Human Factors in Acquisition Management, Policy and Guidance | Karl Kaufmann, FAA Reshma Kumar, FAA |
| 10:25 - 11:05 | Where are we in Europe? The SESAR Human Performance Assessment Process | Dana Schmitz, EUROCONTROL |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | EU Safemode project on Human Risk-Informed Design (HURID) – an industry agnostic human factors toolkit (more info here) |
Barry Kirwan, EUROCONTROL |
| 12:00 - 12:40 |
Introduction to Human Readiness Levels (HRL) and status of in-progress research |
Eddie Austrian & Michael Sawyer, Fort Hill Group |
| 12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch | |
| Session 'Human System Integration – Use Cases' Session chairs: Tara Gibson, FAA & Dana Schmitz, EUROCONTROL |
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| 13:40 - 15:15 | Interactive workshop: Conduct a mock human readiness assessment, apply the HRL scale, and share results |
Eddie Austrian & Michael Sawyer, Fort Hill Group |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 - 16:25 | Dublin Tower independent double runway operations | Catherine Chalon-Morgan, EUROCONTROL |
| 16:25 - 17:05 | Air navigation service provider (ANSP) case study: Multiple remote tower operations at LFV |
Marcus Fillip & Lindsey Martenez-Hermosilla, LFV |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Wrap-up day 1 and outlook day 2 | Eric Neiderman, FAA Tara Gibson, FAA |
| 17:30 | End of Day 1 | |
| Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome coffee | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Introduction | Bill Kaliardos, FAA Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL |
| Session 'Human AI-Teaming' Session chair: Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL & Paula Nouragas, FAA |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Conformal Automation to Increase Controller Acceptance | Brian Hilburn, CHPR |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | AI-based Conformal Automation | Sameer Alam, NTU |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | HAIKU remote tower digital assistant | Miguel Villegas Sanchez, Skyway |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | A tool, a teammate, a coach: Human +AI collaboration in problem solving | Chris McComb, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Human-Automation Teaming Research | Kenneth Allendoerfer, FAA Vicki Ahlstrom, FAA |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Human Factors in Cybersecurity | speaker from FAA |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Bidirectional Communication concept in cockpit operations – HAIKU | Jaime Diaz Pineda, Thales |
| Session 'AI Transparency and Explainability' Session chairs: Eric Neiderman, FAA |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | EASA AI trustworthiness framework: focus on Human-AI teaming aspects | Renee Pelchen-Medwed, Mathilde Labatut, EASA |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Application of HP in AI in the context of a SESAR case study | Ruben Rodriguez, CRIDA |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Supervised Clustering | Ramon Dalmau, EUROCONTROL |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Plenary Debate: How does Human Factors need to change with the advent of AI? | Bill Kaliardos, FAA Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Conclusions and next steps | |
| 17:40 | End of Workshop | |
On 26th and 27th October, a bus shuttle will be available from Place d’Italie in Paris to the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub, the location of the workshop and back. The shuttle will leave around 8 a.m.to arrive at EUROCONTROL around 9 a.m. and take the conference attendants back to Paris afterwards. The following hotels are in close vicinity of Place d’Italie and hence recommended; if you opt for other hotels or private accommodation it would be convenient to choose a location close to Place d’Italie.
| Hotel | Street | Post code | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Western Paris Italie | 205 Avenue de Choisy | 75013 | Paris |
| Ibis Styles Paris Tolbiac | 21 Rue de Tolbiac | 75013 | Paris |
| Mercure Paris Place d Italie | 25 Boulevard Blanqui | 75013 | Paris |
| Mercure Paris Gobelins | 8 Avenue de la soeur Rosalie | 75013 | Paris |
For the location of the workshop and visitor information please see here .
As part of the US-Europe Collaboration Plan, we work closely with the FAA to organise TIMs on topics of interest and relevance for the aviation research community on both sides of the Atlantic. The first of these TIMs took place at the EEC in Brétigny in September 2018; it was dedicated to ‘Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence’. A subsequent TIM on ‘Modelling and Simulation’ took place at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City in October 2019.
These events are organised as part of EUROCONTROL's research coordination and cooperation activity.