ISCF Future Flight Research Director 2021

我们未来的航空系统正在经历一个关键时刻，在许多不同领域都有新颖和创新的新发展。“未来飞行挑战”正在提高我们对这些技术提供的日益增长的机会和潜在利益（包括环境和经济）的认识。然而，为了将这些未来的飞行技术从创新过渡到实施和采用，我们需要回答一些社会问题。这些未来航空系统和技术有可能在我们的日常生活中产生重大的转型变化，不仅包括我们的旅行方式，还包括我们的生活方式，我们的工作方式，我们的消费习惯，我们的医疗保健提供以及我们的城市/农村环境。因此，未来飞行挑战涵盖了一系列复杂的问题，涉及许多领域，不同的利益相关者和一系列学科研究兴趣。从技术和实施的角度来看，这是一个巨大的挑战，包括开发新的自主系统、航空燃料源、传感器和通信系统、地面基础设施、交通和飞行管理系统以及监管框架。然而，这一挑战的隐藏维度是创新生态系统中的个人、用户/非用户群体、利益相关者和更广泛的公众如何反应、回应并最终采用或拒绝这些新技术和航空形式。从经济和社会研究的角度来看，这也为我们提供了一个重要但令人兴奋的挑战。因此，需要一种系统的多学科方法来理解未来飞行的社会和文化背景、突发事件和影响。未来飞行技术的大规模采用将在很大程度上取决于人们对可信度的看法，以及潜在的积极社会效益超过个人、组织、社区或社会层面的负面社会或环境影响。这些不同的组织利益相关者、公众和政策制定者可能还没有完全意识到未来飞行技术的好处和影响，对这些技术缺乏信心或信任不仅会对最终采用产生重大影响，还会对商业或公共部门进一步投资于其发展产生重大影响。因此，至关重要的是，在早期阶段可以更好地理解和参与未来飞行的积极和消极看法以及社会需求。该研究的核心重点包括：-意识：在更广泛的创新生态系统和公共空间中理解新技术，包括流行文化和公共领域中的陈述和叙述。- 行为：在创新生态系统或公共领域内实施或采用方面的组织、群体和个人行为、态度或人为因素。- 可信度：对新技术的看法，它们的潜在应用以及它们在创新生态系统或公共领域内实施的组织或监管框架。- 社会期望：我们的主要目标是在经济和社会研究人员/研究社区、航空业的公司/组织以及学术界、商业界、工业界和广大公众的各种利益相关者之间建立长期的关系和参与空间。

Our future aviation systems are undergoing a pivotal moment with novel and innovative new developments taking place in many different fields. The Future Flight Challenge is increasing our awareness of the growing opportunities and potential benefits (including environmental and economic) offered by such technologies. However, there are a number of social questions we need to answer in order to transition these future flight technologies from innovation to implementation and adoption. These future aviation systems and technologies have the potential to engender significant transformational changes within our day-to-day lives, including potential changes not only to the way we travel, but also how we live, how we work, our consumer habits, our healthcare provision, and our urban/rural environments.The Future Flight Challenge therefore encompasses a complex range of issues that cut across many sectors, a diverse range of stakeholders and a range of disciplinary research interests. This presents a huge challenge from a technological and implementation perspective including the development of new autonomous systems, aviation fuel sources, sensors and communication systems, ground infrastructure, traffic and flight management systems and regulatory frameworks. However, the hidden dimension to this Challenge is how individuals, groups of users/non-users, stakeholders within the innovation ecosystem and wider publics react, respond and ultimately adopt or reject these new technologies and forms of aviation. This also then provides us with a significant, but exciting, challenge from an economic and social research perspective. A systematic multi-disciplinary based approach to understanding the social and cultural contexts, contingencies and implications of future flight is therefore required. Wide scale adoption of Future Flight technologies will hinge in no small part on the perceptions of trustworthiness and of potential positive social benefits outweighing the perceived negative social or environmental impacts at an individual, organisational, community or social level. This diverse range of organisational stakeholders, publics and policy makers, may not yet be fully aware of the benefits and implications of Future Flight technologies and a lack of confidence or trust in these technologies could not only have significant impacts on eventual adoption, but also on further commercial or public sector investment in their development. It is crucial then that the positive and negative perceptions and social desirability of Future Flight can be better understood and engaged with at an early stage. Core focuses of this research include: - Awareness: understanding of new technologies both within a broader innovation ecosystem and in public space, including representations and narratives in popular culture and the public sphere. - Behaviours: organisational, group and individual behaviours, attitudes or human factors in terms of implementation or adoption within the innovation ecosystem or public sphere. - Trustworthiness: perceptions of new technologies, their potential application and the organisational or regulatory frameworks within which they are being implemented within the innovation ecosystem or public sphere. - Social Desirability: political, commercial and user/non-user readiness for new technologies and perceived potential for positive or negative social, environmental and economic implications or impacts.Our primary aim will be to build longer-term relationships and spaces for engagement between economic and social researchers/research communities, companies/organisations in the aviation sectors and a diverse range of stakeholders across academia, business, industry and the wider public.