[techwizrd]

I work in aviation safety research, and there are many problems we reduce to "task overload." Pilots and ATC are under an incredible workload and often required to multiple things at once. We have more and more things to monitor and many things vying for attention. There are also a litany of issues such as staff shortages and busy airspace and software issues that exacerbate the mental workload placed upon them. It also does not help we place most of the burden and responsibility of safe operation onto pilots and ATC.

Unfortunately, we lack the tools to quell the information overload and focus on the most impactful items in the OODA loop. We also often lack data and even the right vocabulary/taxonomy to make statistical conclusions about how much is too much.

[unixhero]

An area ripe for gradient descent