A naturalistic study of railway controllers

Ergonomics

Volumn 49, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 1370-1394

  Farrington Darby, T ^a   Wilson, John R ^a,c   Norris, B J ^a   Clarke, Theresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NETWORK RAIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive task analysis; Control; Domain analysis; Ethnography; Naturalistic; Rail

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; NATURALISTIC; RAILWAY CONTROLLERS;

AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ERGONOMICS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RAILROADS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ETHNOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FIELD STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCESS CONTROL; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; EFFICIENCY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; RAILROADS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 30544447447     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130600613000     Document Type: Article

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