Visualization of uncertainty for Air Traffic Controllers

Christophe Hurter (1, 2) , Serge Roux (2) , Stéphane Conversy (1) , Jean-Paul Imbert (1, 2)

1 LII - ENAC - Equipe Informatique Interactive
2 DGAC - Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile

The goal of Air Traffic Controllers (ATCo) is to maximize both safety and capacity, so as to accept all flights without compromising the life of the passengers or creating delays. Because air traffic is expected to double by 2030, new IT systems must be developed to manage this traffic increase while maintaining or improving safety. ATCo radar screen displays past, current, and future aircraft position that contains uncertainty without displaying it. Uncertainty is mentally integrated by ATCo when assessing the future aircraft position. In this paper, we give some information regarding the radar data uncertainty and we propose new designs to display future aircraft positions more accurately with their uncertainty.

Mots clés: uncertainty visualization; Air Traffic Controller; InfoVis

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Christophe Hurter, Serge Roux, Stéphane Conversy, Jean-Paul Imbert. Visualization of uncertainty for Air Traffic Controllers. VisWeek 2011, Working with Uncertainty Workshop : Representation, Quantification, Propagation, Visualization, and Communication of Uncertainty, Oct 2011, Providence, United States. pp xxxx. ⟨hal-00938685⟩