Anmerkungen:
Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-124). - Compendex. INSPEC. Google scholar. Google book search. - Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 26, 2015)
1. Introduction -- 1.1 Modernization of the NPP control room -- 1.2 Human-factors challenges in the control-room design case -- 1.2.1 Ambiguity about what makes a good control room -- 1.2.2 Lack of insight into good operator work -- 1.2.3 Design products as unique entities -- 1.2.4 The marriage of usability and safety -- 1.2.5 Considering training as design -- 1.2.6 The role of evaluation in design -- 1.3 Methodological consequences -- 1.3.1 Redefining the unit of analysis -- 1.3.2 Adopting a developmental research approach -- 1.3.3 Summary of the methodological consequences -- 1.4 The structure of the book --
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This book focuses on design of work from the human-factors (HF) perspective. In the approach referred to as Core-Task Design (CTD), work is considered practice, composed of human actors, the physical and social environment, and the tools used for reaching the actors' objectives. This book begins with consideration of an industrial case, the modernization of a nuclear power plant automation system, and the related human-system interfaces in the control room. This case illustrates generic design dilemmas that invite one to revisit human-factors research methodology: Human factors should adopt practice as a new unit of analysis and should accept intervention as an inherent feature of its methodology.