Development of an advanced human-machine interface for next generation nuclear power plants

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-126

  Chang, Soon Heung ^a   Choi, Seong Soo ^a   Park, Jin Kyun ^a   Heo, Gyunyoung ^a   Kim, Han Gon ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Ctr for Adv Reactors Development   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advanced control room; Alarm processing; Human machine interface; Information processing; Procedure computerization

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALARM SYSTEMS; AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; STANDARDS; USER INTERFACES;

ALARM PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED OPERATING PROCEDURE CONSOLE (COC); DYNAMIC ALARM CONSOLES (DAC); PROCEDURE COMPUTERIZATION; SAFETY SYSTEM INFORMATION CONSOLE (SSIC);

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0033117064     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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