A sensemaking perspective on situation awareness in power grid operations

IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Greitzer, F L ^a   Schur, A ^a   Paget, M ^a   Guttromson, R T ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer displays; Computer interface human factors; Decision making; Decision support systems; Display human factors; Human factors; Man machine systems; Power systems; Situation awareness; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; POWER GENERATION; USER INTERFACES;

21ST CENTURY; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; COMPUTER DISPLAYS; COMPUTER INTERFACE HUMAN FACTORS; DECISION MAKERS; DISPLAY HUMAN FACTORS; ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; GRID OPERATIONS; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; HUMAN FACTORS STUDIES; INTERCONNECTIVITY; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; POWER GRIDS; POWER SYSTEMS; SENSE-MAKING; SITUATION AWARENESS;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 52349113568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2008.4596285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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