195 User oriented design of man machine interfaces: The design of man machine interfaces for a processing line; A case study: G. van Hal, I.E.M. Wendel, pp 177–182

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 122 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0967-0661
• DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(93)91590-s

✦ Synopsis

This paper focuses on the challenge to human diagnostic reasoning posed by multiple faults. Two sources of difficulty were tested: mental set and multiple fault complexity. Results suggest that mental set and multiple fault complexity affect the correctness, latency and subjective workload of transfer multiple fault diagnosis, but not the number or range of tests made before the final diagnosis. Inability to diagnose the transfer multiple fault was wholly due to failure to explore the symptom space so as to see the sufficient and necessary evidence to diagnose the multiple fault, failure to consider the possibility of multiple faults, or both.