Education: Education: Ph.D: University of Minnesota
Major: Experimental Psychology, Minor: Computer Science
B.A: Grinnell College
Major: Political Science, Minor: Psychology
Manuscripts
Knecht, W.R. (1997) Developing a probabilistic metric of midair collision risk. Transportation Research Record, 1567, 26-32.
Knecht, W.R. (2008). Testing a multidimensional nonveridical aircraft collision avoidance system. Human Factors, 50(4), 565-575.
Knecht, W.R. (2007). Testing a nonveridical aircraft collision avoidance system: Experiment 1. International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies, 7(1), 60-82. As . doc
Thompson, W.B., Kersten, D. & Knecht, W.R. (1992) Structure-from-motion based on information at surface boundaries. Biological Cybernetics, 66, 327-333.
Book Chapters
Smith, K., & Knecht, W.R. (1999) Requirements for metrics of aircraft separation and sector capacity. In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics (Vol. 3, pp. 137-144). Aldershot:Ashgate.
Knecht, W.R., & Smith, K. (2001) The manoeuvre space. In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics. Aldershot:Ashgate.
FAA Technical Reports
Knecht, W. (2005). Pilot willingness to take off into marginal weather, Part II: Antecdent overfitting with forward stepwise logistic regression. (Technical Report DOT/FAA/AM-05/15). Washington, DC: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine.
Knecht, W., Harris, H., & Shappell, S. (2005). The influence of visibility, cloud ceiling, financial incentive, and personality factors on general aviation pilots’ willingness to take off into marginal weather, Part I: The data and preliminary conclusions. (Technical Report DOT/FAA/AM-05/7). Washington, DC: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine.
Conference Presentations and Proceedings
Hancock, P.A., Smith, K., Scallen, S.F., Briggs, A., & Knecht, W. Information and complexity in the national airspace system: Flight deck applications. Eighth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH, April, 1995.
Knecht, W.R. Developing a probabilistic metric of midair collision risk. Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January, 1997.
Knecht, W.R. (2005). The effect of financial incentive on general aviation VFR-into-IMC. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Forty-ninth Annual Meeting (pp. 128-130). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Knecht, W.R. Requirements for automated collision-avoidance systems. Forty-second Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Chicago, IL, October, 1998.
Knecht, W.R. (2001). Modeling the Big Sky Theory. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Forty-fifth Annual Meeting (pp. 87-91). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Knecht, W.R. General aviation VFR-into-IMC: Z-score filtering of demographic and personality variables, and the personality paradox. Thirteenth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Oklahoma City, OK, April, 2005.
Knecht, W.R., & Hancock, P.A. Parameterizing a probabilistic metric of midair collision risk. Ninth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH, April, 1997.
Knecht, W.R., & Hancock, P.A. Parameterizing a metric of midair collision risk. Forty-first Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Albuquerque, NM, September, 1997.
Knecht, W.R., & Hancock, P.A., (1999). Separation maintenance in high-stress free flight using a time-to-contact-based cockpit display of traffic information. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Forty-third Annual Meeting (pp. 26-29). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. As pdf
Knecht, W.R., Harris Jr., H. & Shappell, S., (2004). General aviation pilot takeoff into adverse weather: The "go/no-go" equation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Forty-eighth Annual Meeting (pp. 340-344). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Knecht, W. R., Harris, H. C., Jr., & Shappell, S. Effects of visibility, cloud ceiling, and financial incentive on general aviation VFR-into-IMC. Annual Midyear Symposium of Division 21 of the American Psychological Association, Fort Belvoir, VA, March 2003.
Knecht, W. R., Harris, H. C., Jr., & Shappell, S. (2003). Effects of visibility, cloud ceiling, and financial incentive on general aviation voluntary takeoff into adverse weather. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. (pp. 669-673). Columbus, OH: The Ohio University Press.
Knecht, W.R., & Smith, K. Exploring a novel metric of air traffic congestion. Eleventh International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH, March, 2001. As pdf
Knecht, W.R., & Smith, K. Flying the World’s First Maneuver Space-Based Navaid. (poster). Thirteenth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Oklahoma City, OK, April, 2005.
Knecht, B., Smith, K., & Hancock, P.A., (1996). A dynamic conflict probe and index of collision risk. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Fortieth Annual Meeting (pp. 106-110). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Scallen, S.F., Smith, K., Briggs, A., Knecht, B., & Hancock, P.A. The resolution of en-route aircraft conflicts as a function of traffic situation, traffic density, and aircraft bearing. Sixth Annual Transportation Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN., May, 1995.
Scallen, S.F., Smith, K., Briggs, A., Knecht, B., & Hancock, P.A. (1995). ATC decision-making in the resolution of traffic conflict situations in the absence of radar display. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. (pp. 426-431). Columbus, OH: The Ohio University Press.
Smith, K, Briggs, A., Knecht, W., & Hancock. P. Success and failure at self-separation in simulated free flight. Forty-first Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Albuquerque, NM. Sept., 1997.
Smith, K., Briggs, A., Knecht, W., & Hancock, P.A. (1997). Success and failure at self-separation in simulated free flight. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Forty-first Annual Meeting (pp. 13-17). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Smith, K., Knecht, W.R., Scallen, S.F., & Hancock, P.A. (1997). An index of dynamic density in free flight. Proceedings of the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies' Tenth European Aerospace Conference on Free Flight. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Smith, K., & Knecht, W. (1998). A composite index of dynamic density that predicts self-separation performance. Second International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Oxford, UK. Oct. 28-30.
Misc. Unpublished Research
Sector Congestion Analytical Modeling Program (SCAMP) and the Standard Index of Sector Congestion (SISCO) As pdf
Patents
Knecht, W. R., & Smith, K. (2005). Flight information computation and display. U.S. patent 6,970,104.
Editorships
Consulting Editor, International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies
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