AAWSAP DIRD, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight, November 2010

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Voice Commands
Voice commands are projected to be an excellent augmentation to the set of other
cockpit controls, particularly with the more complex and varied instruction sets, such as
navigating within gesture-based information interfaces.
Based on lessons from human-to-human voice communication, it is advisable to have
commands from the pilot repeated back by the flight-assist system as a form of
confirmation.
Thought Commands
Thought commands are projected to be a faster method to input commands, but face
the underlying limit of the concentration ability of the human. In the case of the
breakthrough-era vehicle, the use of thought commands can be considered comparable
to the use of voice commands. Accordingly, some form of confirmation from the flight­
assist system is needed, which the pilot must acknowledge before that command is
implemented.
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