Assessing mental workload and situation awareness in the evaluation of computerized procedures in the main control room

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 250, Issue , 2012, Pages 713-719

  Yang, Chih Wei ^a   Yang, Li Chen ^a   Cheng, Tsung Chieh ^a   Jou, Yung Tsan ^b   Chiou, Shian Wei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-UP SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES; FIELD OF VIEWS; INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL; INTERFACE EVALUATION; MAIN CONTROL ROOM; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; NASA-TLX; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SIMULATED REACTORS; SITUATION AWARENESS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; TEST PROCEDURES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; NASA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; TESTING; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84864478480     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.05.038     Document Type: Article

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