NSW Space Research Network Series
Title: New South Wales Space Research Network Series: Interactive Systems for Space Industry: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: Wednesday 12 April 2023
Time: 9am till 1pm (Sydney time)
Venue: Penrith Observatory, Building AO, Werrington North Campus, Western Sydney University, Great Western Highway, Werrington and International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), Level 2, Building BA, Werrington South Campus, Werrington, Western Sydney University, on Great Western Highway .
Maps: Werrington North and Werrington South
Agenda
9:00am- Welcome; NSW SRN and WSU
9:15am- Keynote; Professor Philippe Palanque, head of the Interactive Critical Systems at IRIT, France.
10:00am- Champion's presentations from NSW universities and discussion
11:30am- Lunch, networking and a site visit to the International Centre for Neuromorphic Engineering (ICNS)
1:00pm- Breakout groups on transnational education and Earth Observation (optional)
15:00pm- Last shuttle bus to Kingswood train station
Transport and parking: Shuttle bus available from 8.15am from Kingswood train station. If you have a disability and are driving to the Observatory, on arrival, please purchase a parking permit costing $7 from the parking permit machine near the Observatory. Distance between parking spot and Observatory is around 500 metres. Otherwise, for the other attendees, on arrival, please park at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), Level 2, Building BA, Werrington South Campus, Western Sydney University, Great Western Highway. You can walk to the Observatory via the overhead bridge. There is a bus stop outside of building BA (where ICNS is located) main road to catch the shuttle bus back to Kingswood train station after event. You can use the parking permit across both campuses.
Registration: This is a face to face, free event. Registration is essential. Please click here to register
Catering: All meals will be vegetarian. Breakfast will be served at the Observatory from 8.15am till 10.30am. Lunch will be served at ICNS at 11.30am.
Enquiries: Sree Chandra, s.chandra@westernsydney.edu.au
Western Sydney University, collaborating with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) and the Space Research Network (SRN), is organising Stop 3 of the NSW Space Research Series on April 12.
The key focus will be Earth Observation and its uses (including climate change, decarbonisation, agri-futures, natural disaster response, conservation etc) as well as to celebrate relevant research conducted by the ‘non-metropolitan’ universities of NSW and the ACT, including CSU and UNE.
We will also use this opportunity to start a discussion on how we can develop tertiary education in space through domestic and international collaboration. The message of this event is around Space as an enabler of other research disciplines and industries.
The event will commence with a keynote from Professor Philippe Palanque, Head of Interactive Critical Systems at IRIT in France.
Presentations from key champions representing their organisations will follow and then networking, lunch and a tour of WSU’s world-leading International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems
We hope to include the Astrosite if it is not shipped out by then!
This event is collaborative, and in the optional breakout discussions from 1pm, you will have a chance to contribute on the topic of Space and associated training in regional and Rural NSW, with the discussion led by WSU.
Dr. Philippe Palanque is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toulouse.
Dr. Philippe Palanque is Professor in Computer Science at the University Toulouse 3 "Paul Sabatier" and is head of the Interactive Critical Systems group at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) in France. Since the late 80s he has been working on the development and application of formal description techniques for interactive system. He has worked for more than 10 years on research projects to improve interactive Ground Segment Systems at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and is also involved in the development of software architectures and user interface modeling for interactive cockpits in large civil aircraft (funded by Airbus). He is also involved in the research network HALA! (Higher Automation Levels in Aviation) funded by SESAR programme which targets at building the future European air traffic management system. The main driver of Philippe's research over the last 20 years has been to address in an even way Usability, Safety and Dependability in order to build trustable safety critical interactive systems. As for conferences he is a member of the program committee of conferences in these domains such as SAFECOMP 2023 (42nd conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security), DSN 2014 (44th conference on Dependable Systems and Networks), EICS 2023 (15th annual conference on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems) and was co-chair of ACM CHI 2014 (32nd conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).
ABSTRACT
POISE: A Framework for Designing Perfect Interactive Systems with and for Imperfect People
The operator is frequently considered as the main sources of vulnerability in command and control systems; for example, in a 2006 survey 79% of fatal accidents in aviation were attributed to “human error.” Beyond the case of command and control systems, users’ faults occur not only at use time but also during the design and development of systems. Following Avizienis et al.’s taxonomy for faults, human-made error can be characterized as the operator’s failure to deliver services while interacting with the interactive system. Non human-made errors are called natural faults and may occur during development or set the interactive system as well as its users into an error-state during its use. Focusing on interactive systems specificities, this paper presents a comprehensive description of faults covering both development and operation phases. In correspondence with this taxonomy, we present mechanisms to avoid, remove, tolerate and mitigate faults in order to design and develop what we call “perfect” interactive systems taking into account the organization, the interactive system, the environment and the people operating them. We define an interactive system as perfect when it blends multiple and diverse properties such as usability, security, user experience, dependability, learnability, resilience … We present multiple concrete examples, from aviation and other domains, of faults affecting socio-technical systems and associated fault-tolerant mechanisms.
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