{"id":9823,"date":"2018-01-11T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:01","slug":"ics-colloquia-schedule-winter-2018-jan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2018\/ics-colloquia-schedule-winter-2018-jan-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquia: Wed. Jan. 17: Motion and Working Memory: Bridging Applied and Fundamental Research to Understand How Motion Cues in Flight Simulators Affect Pilot Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Colloquia: Wed. Jan. 17: Motion and Working Memory: Bridging Applied and Fundamental Research to Understand How Motion Cues in Flight Simulators Affect Pilot Training\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Date:<\/span><\/strong> January 17, 2018: 3pm-4:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/span><\/strong>: Dunton Tower: Room 2203<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: <\/span><\/strong> Motion and Working Memory:  Bridging Applied and Fundamental Research to Understand How Motion Cues in Flight Simulators Affect Pilot Training.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker: Dr. Chris Herdman<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract:<\/span><\/strong> Moving between applied and fundamental research encourages different perspectives that can lead to interesting and useful outcomes.  I will summarize applied and fundamental research on motion cueing that has been conducted at the Carleton University ACE Lab.  Our applied research is focused on gaining a better understand how flight simulators can be designed to improve pilot training.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our fundamental research objective is to examine the mechanisms and cognitive demands associated with processing motion cues.  It is generally believed that flight training simulators should include physical 6 DOF (degree of freedom) motion systems in order to effectively train pilots how to detect and utilize motion cues and to enhance a sense of immersion in a simulated environment.  To this end, the highest level of flight training simulators are required to include 6 DOF motion systems.  However, there is little evidence showing that including physical motion cueing in a flight simulator enhances pilot performance.  Indeed, in our applied research we have not found any clear impact of motion cueing on pilots\u2019 ability to control a simulated helicopter.  On the other hand, our fundamental research has shown that the intentional use of motion cues places a demand on visual-spatial working memory.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We suggest that the impact of motion cueing on pilot performance may be indirect.  Specifically, whereas motion cues may not directly affect a pilot\u2019s ability to physically control an aircraft, intentional processing of motion information can limit the availability of visual-spatial working memory for other cognitive tasks in the cockpit.  Understanding this indirect link is important given the high cognitive demands associated with flying modern aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: January 17, 2018: 3pm-4:30pm Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203 Title:  Motion and Working Memory:  Bridging Applied and Fundamental Research to Understand How Motion Cues in Flight Simulators Affect Pilot Training. Speaker: Dr. Chris Herdman Abstract: Moving between applied and fundamental research encourages different perspectives that can lead to interesting and useful outcomes.  I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colloquia","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}