Improving safety and human performance in maintenance and outage planning through virtual reality-based training systems

IEEE Conference on Human Factors and Power Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 814-822

  Sebok, Angelia ^a   Nystad, Espen ^b   Drøivoldsmo, Asgeir ^b  

^a EG&G   (United States)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Radiation safety; Safety; Training; User interfaces; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RADIATION PROTECTION; USER INTERFACES;

HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036440007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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