Making ATIS Accessible for Pilots who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Anke Brock, Céline Classe, Laura Duphil, Florent Fabas, Liam Guigo, Thomas Holstein, Christophe Lounis, Ilyes Reguig, Caroline Senaux

2022

Abstract

Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) pilots can easily fly in an uncontrolled space, where radio use is not required to communicate with air traffic control. However, DHH pilots generally cannot fly without any assistance in controlled airspace, where radio use is required. An important service for pilots in general aviation is ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service), a vocal message containing essential information, such as weather data, active runways, available approaches, and any other information needed by pilots. Pilots usually listen to ATIS before contacting control, which reduces controller workload and decreases frequency occupancy. However, since this is an audio-based service it is currently not accessible to DHH pilots. The FANS4all association (Future Air Navigation System for All) aims at making it possible for DHH pilots to fly in controlled airspaces. In this paper, we present the user-centered design process of an accessible mobile ATIS application. A resulting functional prototype has been evaluated in a pilot study with four pilots, including one DHH pilot.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Brock A., Classe C., Duphil L., Fabas F., Guigo L., Holstein T., Lounis C., Reguig I. and Senaux C. (2022). Making ATIS Accessible for Pilots who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS; ISBN 978-989-758-657-6, SciTePress, pages 52-56. DOI: 10.5220/0011958300003622

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccas22,
author={Anke Brock and Céline Classe and Laura Duphil and Florent Fabas and Liam Guigo and Thomas Holstein and Christophe Lounis and Ilyes Reguig and Caroline Senaux},
title={Making ATIS Accessible for Pilots who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS},
year={2022},
pages={52-56},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011958300003622},
isbn={978-989-758-657-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS
TI - Making ATIS Accessible for Pilots who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
SN - 978-989-758-657-6
AU - Brock A.
AU - Classe C.
AU - Duphil L.
AU - Fabas F.
AU - Guigo L.
AU - Holstein T.
AU - Lounis C.
AU - Reguig I.
AU - Senaux C.
PY - 2022
SP - 52
EP - 56
DO - 10.5220/0011958300003622
PB - SciTePress