Investigation on relationship between information flow rate and mental workload of accident diagnosis tasks in NPPs

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1450-1459

  Ha, Chang Hoon ^b   Kim, Jong Hyun ^c   Lee, Seung Jun ^d   Seong, Poong Hyun ^a,d  

^a Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co Ltd ^*

^b Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

Accident diagnosis tasks; Information flow rate; Main control rooms; Mental workload; Nuclear power plants

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS); DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT DIAGNOSIS TASKS; INFORMATION FLOW RATE; MAIN CONTROL ROOMS; MENTAL WORKLOAD;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33746324815     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874189     Document Type: Article

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