How do operators monitor a complex, dynamic work domain? The impact of control room technology
✍ Scribed by KIM J. VICENTE; EMILIE M. ROTH; RANDALL J. MUMAW
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 310 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-5819
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✦ Synopsis
This article describes part of a research programme whose goal is to develop a better understanding of how operators monitor complex, dynamic systems under normal operations. In a previous phase, "eld observations were made at two older nuclear power plant control rooms (CRs) consisting primarily of analogue, hard-wired instrumentation. In this phase, additional "eld observations were conducted in a newer computer-based CR to determine the impact of CR technology on operator monitoring. Eleven di!erent operators were observed in situ for a total of approximately 88 h. The "ndings indicate that there are many similarities in the monitoring strategies adopted by operators in the two types of CRs. However, in most cases, these same strategies are performed using di!erent behaviours, thereby showing the shaping e!ect of the CR technology. A new way of conceptualizing the di!erence between traditional analogue CRs and modern computer-based CRs is proposed.
2001 Academic Press