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(From left) rolf Klomp, michael
H. Smith, and Larry Hall.

authors make use of publicly available BCI competition data sets with
118 channels (dense) and 22 channels (sparse) to validate whether the
algorithm is invariant to the number
of channels being used. The proposed
method results in better accuracy of
classifying the movement imagination between the right hand and left
hand compared with state-of-the-art
methods, with a significant reduction
in the number of channels.
Team from Delft University of
Technology Wins the Award
for Best Oral Presentation
and Paper
The paper "Ecological Interface
Design: Control Space Robustness
in Future Trajectory-Based Air Traffic Control Decision Support" (by
Rolf Klomp, coauthored with Clark
Borst and Gesa Praetorius) won the
award for best oral presentation and
paper. This work was co-financed by
EUROCONTROL acting on behalf of
the SESAR Joint Undertaking and
the European Union as part of Work
Package E (Project C-SHARE: Joint
Air Traffic Management Cognition
Through Shared Representations) in
the SESAR Program.
Abstract
The ongoing growth of air traffic
worldwide is foreseen to exceed the
capacity limits of the current air traffic management (ATM) system within
the coming decades. To facilitate this
increasing demand, two large-scale
international collaborative research
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efforts (SESAR in Europe and Nextsimulation division of the Faculty of
Gen in the United States) are focused
Aerospace Engineering at Delft Univeron majorly overhauling the basic prinsity of Technology. His Ph.D. research
ciples of how air traffic is controlled.
focuses on the development of ecologiA key pillar within both research projcal 4-D trajectory-based controller
ects is to transition from the current,
decision support tools. His research
hands-on form of tactical control tointerests include human-automation
ward highly precise time-based strainteraction, air traffic simulation, and
tegic airspace management. Rather
(ecological) interface design.
than issuing discrete instructions
Gesa Praetorius is a research
by direct voice communication, the
associate in the Maritime Risk and
language between
System Safety Reair traffic controlsearch Group at
lers and pilots will
the World Maritime
The nonstationary
be that of automatiUniversity, Sweden.
features of EEG
cally generated fourShe holds an M.Sc.
signals were
dimensional (4-D)
deg ree i n cog n itrajectories via digitive science from
adaptively
tal data link.
Linköping University
estimated in
In follow-up
and a Ph.D. degree in
the proposed
research, a more
shipping technology
algorithms.
elaborate human-inChalmers University
the-loop experiment
of Technology. Her
was performed with
resea rch focuses
participants with different levels of exon resilience engineering and system
pertise. Here, the first group consisted
safety in complex systems and in the
of novice participants (Ph.D. students
maritime domain in particular.
from the TU Delft), the second group
Clark Borst received his M.Sc.
consisted of skilled participants (ATM
(2004) and Ph.D. degrees (2009) in
research and development experts),
aerospace engineering from the Delft
and the third were operational experts
University of Technology, where he
(active air traffic controllers). The preis currently an assistant professor in
liminary results from this experiment
aerospace human-machine systems.
show that for all conditions (varying
His work and research interests lie in
task load and complexity) the robustdeveloping human-centered aviation
ness of control actions with the travel
automation through the application
space representation mainly depended
and empirical evaluation of cognitive
on the level of expertise of the controlsystems engineering and ecological
ler. That is, although more robust soluinterface design principles.
tions are not explicitly visualized in the
Max Mulder received his M.Sc.
constraint-based representation, conand Ph.D. degrees (cum laude) in
trollers with a higher level of expertise
aerospace engineering from the Delft
were able to apply knowledge-based
University of Technology, in 1992 and
strategies and reasoning that resulted
1999, respectively, for his work on the
in more airspace-wide robust solutions.
cybernetics of tunnel-in-the-sky disIt can, therefore, be said that the effecplays. He is currently a full professor
tiveness of ecological constraint-based
and the head of the section Control
representations depends largely on
and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace
the expertise level and experience of
Engineering, Delft University of Techthe operator.
nology. His research interests include
cybernetics and its use in modeling
human perception and performance
About the Authors
as well cognitive systems engineerRolf Klomp received his M.Sc. degree
ing and its application in the design of
from Delft University of Technology,
ecological human-machine systems.
The Netherlands, in 2010. He is currently a Ph.D. student with the control and

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