David Rudi

Current advances in airplane cockpit design and layout are often driven by a need to improve the pilot's awareness of the aircraft's state. This involves an improvement in the flow of information from aircraft to pilot. However, providing the aircraft with information on the pilot's state remains an open challenge. This work takes a first step towa...

Contemporary aircraft cockpits rely mostly on audiovisual information propagation which can overwhelm particularly novice pilots. The introduction of tactile feedback, as a less taxed modality, can improve the usability in this case. As part of a within-subject simulator study, 22 participants are asked to fly a visual-flight-rule scenario along a...

Eye tracking has a longstanding history in aviation research. Amongst others it has been employed to bring pilots back "in the loop", i.e., create a better awareness of the flight situation. Interestingly, there exists only little research in this context that evaluates the application of machine learning algorithms to model pilots' understanding o...

Moving towards the highly controversial single pilot cockpit, more and more automation capabilities are added to today’s airliners. However, to operate safely without a pilot monitoring, avionics systems in future cockpits will have to be able to intelligently assist the remaining pilot. One critical enabler for proper assistance is a reliable clas...

Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Eye-Tracking in Aviation (ETAVI) 2020

This work investigates the potential of providing commercial aviation flight instructors with an eye tracking enhanced observation system to support the training process. During training, instructors must deal with many parallel tasks, such as operating the flight simulator, acting as air traffic controllers, observing the pilots and taking notes....

The technological and organizational advancements in civil aviation have in many senses made flying an aircraft less demanding than it was decades ago. Nonetheless, even today, pilots need to continuously monitor, analyze, and manage a vast amount of information in the cockpit. In out-of-the-norm situations, these tasks can become so challenging th...

This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of utilizing optical (head-mounted) displays for mixed reality in the context of seamless mobile learning. Recent technological developments have significantly improved the capabilities and the mobility of head-mounted displays. Future displays, frequently referred to as data glasses, will be ev...

Flying an aircraft is a mentally demanding task where pilots must process a vast amount of visual, auditory and vestibular information. They have to control the aircraft by pulling, pushing and turning different knobs and levers, while knowing that mistakes in doing so can have fatal outcomes. Therefore, attempts to improve and optimize these inter...

This paper discusses the social challenges posed by a future wherein humans are using Head-Mounted Devices (HMDs) in their everyday lives. Factors causing a negative attitude towards HMDs today, such as privacy concerns and hardware limitations, are no longer an issue, due to technological advances and increasing distribution and familiarity within...

Although severe aircraft accidents have been reduced in the last decades, the number of injuries and fatalities caused by weather phenomena leading to turbulence is still rising. Current aviation weather products are unable to provide a holistic and intuitive view of the overall weather situation, especially in terms of turbulence forecasts. This w...

The idea of using eye tracking technology in pilot training has been suggested and successfully applied in the past. At the same time, the possibilities of visualizing eye tracking data have strongly progressed. Nonetheless, little effort has been invested into exploring which type of eye tracking visualization flight instructors prefer for evaluat...

A large number of online rating and review platforms allow users to exchange their experiences with products and locations. These platforms need to implement appropriate mechanisms to counter malicious content, such as contributions which aim at either wrongly accrediting or discrediting some product or location. For ratings and reviews of location...

This paper explores the design space for interacting with maps on Optical (See-Through) Head-Mounted Displays (OHMDs). The resulting interactions were evaluated in a comprehensive experiment involving 31 participants. More precisely, novel head-based interactions were compared with well-known haptic interactions on an OHMD regarding efficiency, eff...

This paper discusses counter-measures for cognitive biases in maps based on pragmatic communication. We argue that communicative measures can be used to either increase bias awareness or to switch the representation to a form which avoids particular biases depending on the task.