Human factors aspects of power system voltage contour visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 76-82

  Overbye, Thomas J ^a   Wiegmann, Douglas A ^a   Rich, Aaron M ^a   Sun, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contouring; Human factors; Power system operations and planning; Voltage visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

VOLTAGE VISUALIZATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037291580     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2002.807060     Document Type: Article

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