Korean J Aerosp Environ Med.  2013 Dec;23(3):70-77.

New Paradigm for Aviation Training and Education: Perspective of Intelligent Training System

• Yoo Y

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a perspective about intelligent training system as an approach to not only enhance aviation operators but also solve aviation safety problem. Review of related literatures about mechanisms of skill failure, learning, and forgetting leads our research efforts to choose cognitive architectures as modeling tools for human performance. Cognitive models can provide an advanced understanding of how humans learn the knowledge and skills, based on cognitive theories. Particularly, cognitive models based on a cognitive architecture can summarize behavioral characteristics, such as regularities of errors (how humans make sequential errors), learning mechanisms, and forgetting as well. Taxonomy of cognitive architectures and successful case studies with different knowledge representations are briefly summarized to help understand the perspective and relevancy of cognitive architectures in aviation. It is concluded that these architecture-based models can inform us information about the various training strategies and achieve training efficiency-e.g., how and when to train (or retrain) workforce in an attempt to achieve skilled performance within limited training resources of cost and time.

Keyword

Aviation training effectiveness; Cognitive architecture; Aviation safety; Intelligent training system