Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

Poor synchronization of physiological and flight data hinders human factors research by obscuring cause-effect relationships and requiring laborious manual alignment. We developed a custom X-Plane plugin which uses Lab Streaming Layer (LSL) for real-time synchronization to integrate flight data with simultaneously streamed ECG and eye-tracking signals. Our setup simplifies datacollection and ensures precise synchronization without manual intervention,reducing error and preprocessing time. This paper describes the system configuration, plugin, and advantages over conventional methods. Our approachenables accurate correlation between physiological responses and in-flight events,offering deeper insights into pilot performance and workload, resulting in apractical, reproducible method of simplifying multimodal data collection foraccessible and efficient research in aviation human factors.

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Presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, May 27-30, 2025, Hosted by Oregon State University

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