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ACROSS Project launched

stefano — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:58:35 +0000

The Seventh Framework Programme Integrated Project ACROSS, coordinated by Thales, has been launched the first of January 2013. Deep Blue will manage the validation and dissemination activities.

ASCOS

stefano — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:52:03 +0000

ASCOS is an EU funded research project of the 7th Framework Program, dealing with Aviation Safety and Certification of new Operations and Systems.

The objective of ASCOS is to develop innovative certification process adaptations and supporting safety driven design methods and tools to ease the certification of safety enhancement systems and operations while, at the same time,

increasing safety. The project aims to better account for the human element from the early stages of the certification process, and thus reducing consequences of human error and increasing safety.

ASCOS will follow a total system approach, dealing with all aviation system elements in an integrated way over the complete life-cycle.

The project is based on the following

work packages:

WP1 Certification process
WP2 Continuous safety monitoring
WP3 Safety risk management
WP4 Certification case studies
WP5 Validation
WP6 Dissemination and exploitation
WP7 Management

Deep Blue Role

Deep Blue is involved in WP2, WP3 and WP5.

In WP2 (Continuous safety monitoring) Deep Blue brings its Safety and Human Factors expertise in the identification of Safety Performance Indicators, with a special focus on the human contribution to safety occurrences. Furthermore we contribute to define the appropriate Process for Safety Performance Monitoring and to conduct a user centred evaluation of the Safety Monitoring Tools developed inside the WP.

In WP3 (Safety Risk Management) Deep Blue participates to the adaptation and integration of existing Risk Models and Accidents Scenarios (e.g. CATS and IRP) and contributes to develop guidance for the users of the Overall Safety Impact Tool that will be designed in the context of this WP.

In WP5 (Validation) Deep Blue will lead the conduction of the exercises (WP5.3) and the analysis of the results (WP5.4), based on which the following ASCOS products will be validated: a) the new Certification Approach, b) the Methods and Tools for Continuous Safety Monitoring, c) the Supporting Safety Based Design Systems and Tools.

World ATM Congress

stefano — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:34:47 +0000

Deep Blue and EUI presented the ALIAS Project at the World ATM Congress, held in Madrid (Spain) on 12-14 February 2013.

The event attracted 5,084 active participants from more than 100 countries. Aisles were filled with 160 exhibiting companies.

The ALIAS Project had its own booth in the area of the Exhibition Hall dedicated to Universities and Research Centres.

Very positive feedback about the project and its main products, the Network of Legal Research in ATM and the Legal Case methodology, was collected from the stakeholders who attended the event.

Industrial supplies, ANSPs, Research Centres and Authorities were unanimous in recognising the need to address the liability impact of automated system and looked positively at the project initiatives.

SESAR Awards

stefano — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:40:29 +0000

This year’s third SESAR Project Awards recognized projects that delivered exemplary performance.

For the category “Best Release exercise” was unanimously awarded the exercise 198 Airborne SPAcing Sequencing and Merging led by ENAV, Airbus and Selex ES as it performed “the most representative live evaluations done up to now for the ASPA application”.

Deep Blue was in charge of the validation activities of this exercise, that has been awarded to providing superior contribution to Release 2 through quality of the organization, respect of planning, validation close to operation and concept coverage.

TiltrotorFX

stefano — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:48:59 +0000

Deep Blue parteciperà al progetto TiltrotorFX, coordinato da Agusta Westland. Il progetto, co-finanziato dal MIUR, si propone di sviluppare comandi di volo Innovativi e logiche di controllo avanzate per convertiplani.
Deep Blue si occuperà delle attività relative alla valutazione dell'usabilità, agli aspetti di safety e alla validazione operativa.

2012 Publications

stefano — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:15:16 +0000

The list of papers and articles published in 2012 has been updated and is available here.

FAROS

stefano — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:19:21 +0000

FAROS is an European project, funded by European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.

In FAROS the Risk-Based Design (RBD) methodology will be used to integrate human elements into the ship safety framework and deliver ship concepts that are safe, economic and green.
The majority of maritime accidents (collision, grounding, fire, etc.) are routinely attributed to human error: figures from the literature refer that between 80% and 96% of major accidents and disasters are related to errors of judgment, inadequate watch keeping, and low compliance with regulations. Accidents contribute to the risk of injury or loss of life of passengers (societal risk) and injury or fatality of crew members (personal risks).

The main objective of the FAROS project is twofold:

to link global design factors such as ship motion, noise, vibration, fumes, lighting and temperature to crew performance failure modes (e.g., fatigue, stress etc.)
to optimize multi-disciplinary ship performance using state-of-the-art tools, methods and empirical knowledge

The FAROS framework will integrate human factors aspects into ship design projects, by applying the new implemented Risk-Based design platform in cargo and passenger ship concepts with the design objectives of maximising life-cycle economics, safety and environmental friendliness.

Deep Blue Role
Deep Blue brings the expertise of its collaborators in Human Factors and Risk Analysis, based on a wide-ranging experience in the Aviation domain. Deep Blue leads WP4 wherein the risk models with integrated crew performance will be developed. Deep Blue is also contributor to WP3 (Crew Performance Studies) and WP7 (Cross-validation via Physical and Virtual Experiments).

New publication

stefano — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:03:50 +0000

Paper “Designing Human-Automation Interaction: A New Level of Automation Taxonomy” recently presented by Deep Blue at the “Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter – Annual Meeting 2012” in Toulouse.

The paper has been written by Luca Save (Deep Blue) in collaboration with Beatrice Feuerberg (Egis Avia) and presents innovative results based on studies conducted in the context of the SESAR Programme.

Ricerca collaboratore

stefano — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:56:33 +0000

Deep Blue offre contratto di consulenza in progetti di ricerca e sviluppo in ambito aeronautico ed ICT.

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HCI Aero 2012 – Workshop “Human Factors for Reduced-Crew Operations”

stefano — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:10:28 +0000

Call for position paper HCI-Aero: Human Factors for Reduced-Crew Operations (deadline 15th of June 2012)
HCI Aero 2012 – Workshop "Human Factors for Reduced-Crew Operations"
Brussels, Belgium September 12-14, 2012

Within the HCI Aero 2012, the ALICIA project is organising a two half days workshop on "Human factors for Reduced Crew Operations".

General description
The workshop will address the topic of Reduced-crew concepts (RCC), from the point of view of:
– Cockpit technologies,
– Human Factors methods for the design and evaluation of these concepts
– The impact of cockpit modifications on the overall system (including both aeronautic and Air Traffic Management domains).

The workshop is organised in three modules, enabling a coherent and systemic approach that takes a continuum of issues into account: from the cockpit through to the whole aviation system. Presentations of ideas will be interspersed with debate sessions. The debate and discussion points will be collated and disseminated to interested parties.
More information about the contents, structure and goals of the workshop are available here.

Position Papers
Participants should submit a position paper describing the contents of their contributions, suggesting views, examples and approaches relevant to the chosen module. The organisers of the workshop will selected the most relevant contributions on the workshop topics. It is expected that two to four contributions per module will be chosen.

1. Contribution to Module one: examples of technologies or studies about technologies (or comparison of different technologies) that are enablers for RCC. The topic can include, but is not limited to, technologies for reducing crew workload, complexity and scope for human error in the cockpit, replicating the actions of additional crew members and methods of facilitating increased interaction with functions based on the ground.
2. Contribution to Module two: studies on HF methods (or combination of methods) for designing, developing and evaluating reduced crewing concepts.
3. Contribution to Module three: studies on the impact of the reduced crew concept "outside" the cockpit, on the wider operations ecosystem.

Please submit 2-4 page position papers to: alicia@dblue.it by the 15th of June.
At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.

Target Audience
- Academia (e.g. HF, psychology, engineering and management domains)
- Industry (e.g. operation, design, safety and different business models: cargo, business jet, low cost, etc.)
- Interested groups (e.g. unions)
- Regulatory bodies

Organisers
The workshop is organized by representatives of the ALICIA project (www.alicia-project.eu):
Nick McDonald: University of Dublin, Trinity College
Professor Neville Stanton and Katie Plant: University of Southampton
Professor David Mangion: University of Malta
Luke Bolton: GE Aviation
Stefano Bonelli and Linda Napoletano: Deep Blue

For info contact: alicia@dblue.it