Automated Contextual Navigation for Aircraft GUI Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern aircraft cockpit displays require pilots to divert attention from primary operations to navigate and interact with multiple graphical user interfaces, increasing workload and reducing situational awareness due to the need for manual navigation and pagination.
Innovation Solution
The system automatically determines the operational context of user inputs on a primary display and updates a secondary display to the appropriate destination GUI display, reducing the need for manual navigation by analyzing user inputs and current aircraft status to provide context-sensitive pagination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual navigation and pagination of GUI displays is implemented, then pilots can access and interact with multiple display functions, but pilot workload increases and situational awareness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines operational context and navigates to destination GUI displays without requiring manual navigation from the pilot. The processing system monitors user inputs, analyzes operational context based on current aircraft status, and automatically updates the secondary display to the appropriate destination display, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous pilot intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively determines the destination GUI display before the pilot would need to manually navigate to it. By analyzing the operational context in advance and pre-determining the appropriate destination display, the system prepares the interface in advance, eliminating the need for manual navigation steps and reducing pilot workload
2Loss of information
If multiple separate GUI displays are used, then comprehensive information can be presented, but navigation complexity increases and head-down time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user inputs on the primary display and uses this feedback to automatically determine the appropriate destination display on the secondary display. The processing system analyzes the sequence of user interactions and adjusts the secondary display content in real-time, creating a feedback loop that reduces navigation time and keeps the pilot focused on forward operations
3Ease of operation
If automated contextual navigation is implemented, then pilot workload is reduced and situational awareness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A processing system acts as an intermediary between the primary display user inputs and the secondary display updates. This intermediary component analyzes operational context, determines destination displays, and manages the automatic navigation process, isolating the complexity from the pilot while maintaining simplicity in the user interaction model
Data Source
AI summary
Vehicle systems and methods are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle by automatically updating a secondary display in response to a user input on a primary display. One method involves determining a context associated with the user input on a first graphical user interface (GUI) display based at least in part on current status information associated with the vehicle and a location of the user input on the first GUI display, determining a destination GUI display for receiving a second user input corresponding to the location of the user input on the first GUI display based at least in part on the context, and automatically updating a second GUI display distinct from the first GUI display to the destination GUI display responsive to the user input.