Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit

Through an analysis of audio and video recordings of the behaviors of real airline flight crews performing in a high fidelity flight simulator, it is demonstrated that the expertise in this system resides not only in the knowledge and skills of the human actors, but in the organization of the tools in the work environment as well.

Abstract

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