Human Factors Checklist User's Manual for ATC

This electronic checklist is a companion to the paper document - Human Factors in the Design and Evaluation of Air Traffic Control Systems. The items contained in this checklist have been derived from this handbook. The primary purpose of the checklist is to point air traffic and other operations specialists to human factors issues that they may wish to include in their consideration of a new system, subsystem, or a new component of an existing system. The responses of operations specialists to the checklist items can help to focus group discussions and identify issues that should be addressed in every stage of the acquisition process, from the development of system requirements to formal operational testing. Checklist items can be used to provide a basis for system requirements and specifications, as criteria for selection among potential vendors, or as part of an operational evaluation. However, in order to translate checklist items into requirements, specifications, or system performance criteria, knowledge of the system will be necessary to relate the items to specific system functions.