Human Factors in Alarm Design

✍ Scribed by Neville Stanton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on the application of human factors and ergonomics in the design of alarm systems, this book brings together all the disparate areas in a single volume.; The aim of the book is to present current human factor issues regarding alarm design in a variety of setting, such as industrial alarm systems in process industries, aviation, automobiles and intensive care. It argues that the severe short comings of alarm systems can be overcome through the use of human factors evaluation and design integration techniques. Contributors cover the areas of HCI, task analysis, training, personnel selection, and design and human behavior in an emergency, which of course, can be influenced positively and negatively by the design and deployment of alarm systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
A human factors approach......Page 12
Experimental research into alarm design......Page 22
Urgency mapping in auditory warning signals......Page 26
An experiment to support the design of VDU-based alarm lists for power plant operators......Page 42
Testing risk homeostasis theory in a simulated process control task: implications for alarm reduction strategies......Page 56
Considerations of the human operator......Page 70
Cognitive demands and activities in dynamic fault management: abductive reasoning and disturbance management......Page 74
Alarm initiated activities......Page 104
Supervisory control behaviour and the implementation of alarms in process control......Page 130
Design and evaluation of alarm systems......Page 146
The alarm matrix......Page 150
Operator support systems for status identification and alarm processing at the OECD Halden Reactor Project;experiences and perspective for future development......Page 158
Ergonomics and engineering aspects of designing an alarm system for a modern nuclear power plant......Page 176
Applications of alarm systems......Page 190
Alarms in nuclear power plant control rooms: current approaches and future design......Page 194
Psychological aspects of conventional in-car warning devices......Page 204
Sources of confusion in intensive therapy unit alarms......Page 218
Key topics in alarm design......Page 232
Index......Page 244

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