ABSTRACT
Human factors specialists must spend time in appraising the relevance of the developments to their work, in noting parallel developments and human factors issues in other contexts, and in learning of new theories, methods, measures and constructs. Human factors as a discipline must grapple with these issues in the future in relation to air traffic control and to itself, for it cannot remain aloof from the future application of computer assistance to solve human factors problems and recommend human factors decisions. In many nations and internationally, the roles and benefits of human factors are becoming more widely advocated, leading to a gradual expansion of human factors work in relation to air traffic control. The circumstances, in which most human factors specialists in air traffic control have sufficient opportunities to satisfy their customers, depend on the continuing delivery of work of high quality that is perceived to be relevant.
