Flight Crew Physiological Data for Crew State Monitoring

Diverted Attention (DA) is the state of having one’s attention diverted by actions or thought processes associated with a decision. This is induced by having the subjects perform a display monitoring task. Periodically, a math problem showed up which had to be solved before returning to the monitoring task.

Startle/Surprise (SS) is induced by having the subjects watch movie clips with jump scares. For each experiment, a pair of pilots (each with its own crew ID) was recorded over time and subjected to the CA, DA, or SS cognitive states. The training set contains three experiments (one for each state) in which the pilots experienced just one of the states.

For example, in the experiment labelled CA, the pilots were either in a baseline state (no event) or the CA state. The test set contains a full flight simulation during which the pilots could experience any of the states (but never more than one at a time). Each sensor operated at a sample rate of 256 Hz.

Please note that since this is physiological data from real people, there will be noise and artifacts in the data.