Designing training for process control simulators: A review of empirical findings and current practices

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 489-509

  Kluge, Annette ^a   Sauer, Jürgen ^b   Schüler, Kerstin ^a   Burkolter, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive transfer; Process control; Simulator; Temporal transfer; Training methods; Training requirement analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007837628     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639220902982192     Document Type: Review

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