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An Overview of Paper Documentation Moving to Onboard Information System (OIS) for Commercial Aircraft

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Paper documentation has been used in the flight deck for a long time on commercial aircraft. Pilots are familiar with tons of manuals to search information during flight to help them perform procedures to ensure safety, efficiency and comfort on commercial aircrafts. Management of interconnections among these flight manuals can be a challenge for pilots, especially when time workload is high in normal, abnormal, and emergency situations. This paper is an overview on the development from paper documentation moving to Onboard Information System (OIS), which fulfills the function of an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) system. Today the EFB or OIS does not simply provide electronic documentation onboard, it could be a multi-function device interacting with other systems and pilots in the flight deck. This overview also discusses the significance of contextual information on OIS facilitates access to appropriate operational content at the right time through case study. Tangible Cockpit (i.e., Full-Glass Cockpit) could be a trend of flight deck design in the near future, which is easy to use, update, and maintenance. However, it may bring new problems during flight operations.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Guy Boy for supervising the research. Thanks colleagues in School of Flight Technology for assisting our work. Thanks to all who participated in questionnaires and provided me with their time and great feedback to OIS. Thanks to Dr. Barbara K. Burian, Dr. Divya Chandra, Dr. Christophe Kolski, and Dr. Scott Winter, who provided me with feedback, suggestions, and comments on this research.

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  1. University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

  2. Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Don Harris

  3. Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

    Wen-Chin Li

  4. Soar Technology Inc., Orlando, FL, USA

    Dylan D. Schmorrow

  5. Design Interactive, Inc., Orlando, FL, USA

    Cali M. Fidopiastis

  6. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris

  7. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Andri Ioannou

  8. DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Xiaowen Fang

  9. Soar Technology, Inc., Orlando, FL, USA

    Robert A. Sottilare

  10. Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany

    Jessica Schwarz

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Tan, W., Jiang, Y. (2020). An Overview of Paper Documentation Moving to Onboard Information System (OIS) for Commercial Aircraft. In: Stephanidis, C., et al. HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Learning and Games. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12425. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60128-7_9

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