Cockpit Task Management Bibliography

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Ricks, W.R., Jonsson, J.E., and Rogers, W.H. (1994)  

TITLE: Cognitive Representations of Flight-Deck Information Attributes
PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Vol. 4(1), 1994, pp. 65-81.
KEYWORDS: importance, urgency, priority, information attributes, taxonomy, information management
SUMMARY: Approaches CTM as "flight-deck information management issues."  Used empirical data to develop a taxonomy of flight-deck information management issues.   This study also determined how pilot model the importance of flight-deck information attributes for managing information.  They don't really talk about CTM, but rather about the attributes of information on the flightdeck.

 SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTS/EXCERPTS:

Good support for the importance of: Importance, Urgency and Priority of information management (IM) in the cockpit. Identifies these as research areas that need to be studied.

The four clusters:

  1. Intricacy
  2. Perception
  3. Relevance * - this is the section that talks about priority (pg. 80).
  4. Dynamics

(pg. 80)
"Another result of the clustering analysis was the close physical proximity of the terms priority and importance.  As stated in the Method section, a secondary reason for doing the clustering analysis was to reduce (if possible) the set of attributes to a smaller number. Because closer physical proximity of data in the similarity space indicated smaller differentiations made between the terms by subjects, on can infer that the pilots considered these terms to be virtually identical."

"... Based on this interpretation, researchers might aim for a better understanding of the way in which pilot mentally represent (i.e., think about) urgency, priority, and relevance..."

"...urgency and priority were considered by the pilots to be important and problematic."

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