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Title: Nuclear power plant human computer interface design incorporating console simulation, operations personnel, and formal evaluation techniques

Abstract

New CRT-based information displays which enhance the human machine interface are playing a very important role and are being increasingly used in control rooms since they present a higher degree of flexibility compared to conventional hardwired instrumentation. To prototype a new console configuration and information display system at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), an iterative process of console simulation and evaluation involving operations personnel is being pursued. Entire panels including selector switches and information displays are simulated and driven by plant dynamical simulations with realistic responses that reproduce the actual cognitive and physical environment. Careful analysis and formal evaluation of operator interaction while using the simulated console will be conducted to determine underlying principles for effective control console design for this particular group of operation personnel. Additional iterations of design, simulation, and evaluation will then be conducted as necessary.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10119354
Report Number(s):
CONF-930401-20
ON: DE94005989; BR: KE0103000/KV0200000; TRN: 94:003536
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-89ER12889
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Meeting on nuclear plant instrumentation, control and man-machine interface technologies,Oak Ridge, TN (United States),18-21 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; EBR-2 REACTOR; HUMAN FACTORS; INTERACTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES; 220400; 220600; CONTROL SYSTEMS; RESEARCH, TEST, TRAINING, PRODUCTION, IRRADIATION, MATERIALS TESTING REACTORS

Citation Formats

Chavez, C, Edwards, R M, and Goldberg, J H. Nuclear power plant human computer interface design incorporating console simulation, operations personnel, and formal evaluation techniques. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Chavez, C, Edwards, R M, & Goldberg, J H. Nuclear power plant human computer interface design incorporating console simulation, operations personnel, and formal evaluation techniques. United States.
Chavez, C, Edwards, R M, and Goldberg, J H. 1993. "Nuclear power plant human computer interface design incorporating console simulation, operations personnel, and formal evaluation techniques". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10119354.
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abstractNote = {New CRT-based information displays which enhance the human machine interface are playing a very important role and are being increasingly used in control rooms since they present a higher degree of flexibility compared to conventional hardwired instrumentation. To prototype a new console configuration and information display system at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), an iterative process of console simulation and evaluation involving operations personnel is being pursued. Entire panels including selector switches and information displays are simulated and driven by plant dynamical simulations with realistic responses that reproduce the actual cognitive and physical environment. Careful analysis and formal evaluation of operator interaction while using the simulated console will be conducted to determine underlying principles for effective control console design for this particular group of operation personnel. Additional iterations of design, simulation, and evaluation will then be conducted as necessary.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993}
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