We are delighted to share that Adrian Sarbach successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Visualisation of Spatio-Temporal Information on the Flight Deck”. His research explored how information such as weather hazards and obstacles can be displayed to pilots using 2D and 3D visualizations on laptops and augmented reality devices, and included an analysis of flight data from Swiss International Air Lines long-haul flights. Congratulations, Adrian!
Many years ago, we published a paper at UIST on 3D weather visualizations for pilots. (See Stähli et al. Turbulence Ahead – A 3D Web-Based Aviation Weather Visualizer. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242624.)
We built upon this research and, in a study with 24 commercial pilots, compared more variations of aviation weather information visualizations. The results are now published in Ergonomics with the title “2D versus 3D aviation weather visualisations”.
You can find the full paper, open access, at https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2024.2445317.
This paper is co-authored by Tiffany C.K. Kwok (former doctoral student and post-doc at the geoGAZElab, currently with Lufthansa Systems), Martin Raubal, Peter Kiefer, and Adrian Sarbach (all geoGAZElab).
We’re glad that Adrian Sarbach has joined the geoGAZElab as a doctoral student on the project “The Expanded Flight Deck – Improving the Weather Situation Awareness of Pilots (EFDISA)“.
Adrian has, among others, studied at EPFL (Bachelor) and at ETH Zurich (Master), obtaining his degrees in electrical engineering. He wrote his MSc thesis in collaboration with Swiss International Air Lines, on the topic of tail assignment optimization.
We are excited that we receive funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (BAZL) for a new project, starting in July 2021: “The Expanded Flight Deck – Improving the Weather Situation Awareness of Pilots (EFDISA)“. The project aims at improving contemporary pre-flight and in-flight representations of weather data for pilots. This will allow pilots to better perceive, understand, and anticipate meteorological hazards. The project will be done in close collaboration with industry partners and professional pilots (Swiss International Air Lines & Lufthansa Systems).
We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral student for this project. Applications are now open.
