Human-system interface (HSI) challenges in nuclear power plant control rooms

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5618 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 729-737

  Chang, Jo Ling ^a   Liao, Huafei ^a   Zeng, Liang ^b  

^a BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Control room; Corrective action; Factor analysis; Human error; Human performance; Human system interface

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ROOMS; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SYSTEM INTERFACE;

ERRORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS);

EID: 76249131728     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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