HCI-Aero 2000

interaction in aerospace.

Over the years, an aerospace human-factors culture is spreading, diffusing skills and knowledge from R&D communities to operational and engineering circles world-wide. The aeronautics industry and govemmental agencies are now incorporating human factors in their business. In addition to describe the way people behave in aviation, we try to develop programs that attempt to make predictions. Attitudes in this respect have significantly changed and a creative, stimulating, forward-looking era has opened up providing us with plenty of opportunities to contribute.

Human-computer issues have been a vivid catalyst for the proactive development of methods, for the production of knowledge, for the constructive review and validation of HCI media.

As the field matures and becomes increasingly institutionalized, several areas have become increasingly important and are represented in the technical prograin:

• The communication between the research and operational communities
  
• Organizational issues
  
• Regulatory material and industry standards
  
• Increasingly widespread applications in airbome systems and in air
  
• traffic management
  
• Where do we go from. here?
  

The technical prograin. is complemented by social events and opportunities for extensive interaction with colleagues from différent countries, disciplines, and professions. It thereby enables participants to build a common frame of refèrence for exploring crucial issues induced by human-computer interaction in design, evaluation, operations, maintenance, certification, management and training in aeronautics. Various types of contributions were submitted and reviewed. The best ones are included in these proceedings and represent multidisciplinary investigations, industry and govemment experience, case studies and research efforts that have led to current aviation problems.

As with HCI-Aero'98 it is important to note that this conférence is organized in Cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM/SIGCHI). The fécus of SIGCHI is on how people conimunicate and interact with a broadly defined range of computer systems.

The members of the Program. Committee provided invaluable help in reviewing and selecting the most representative contributions. We would like to thank Helen Wilson froin EURISCO in Toulouse for her help and dedication to the success of HCI-Aero 2000.

Kathy Abbott and Jean-Jacques Speyer
General Co-Chairs