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Human Performance and Plant Safety Performance

Establishing a Technical Basis and Framework for Evaluating New Human–System Interfaces

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New nuclear power plants (NPPs) employ digital instrumentation, control systems and computer-based human–system interfaces (HSIs) that possess tremendous functional capability and an ability to display information that is limited only by the imagination of the designer. Thus the industry is seeing a proliferation of approaches to information system design. A question arises as to how one should decide which approaches to use in control rooms. The purpose of this chapter is to address this question; more specifically to propose an approach to evaluating new and novel HSI in NPP and other complex human–machine systems in the context of human factors and plant safety performance. Our approach provides a decision-making context that considers the design approach as well as its products.

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  1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA

    John M. O’Hara

  2. Former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC, USA

    J. Persensky

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    Ann Britt Skjerve

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    Andreas Bye

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O’Hara, J.M., Persensky, J. (2010). Human Performance and Plant Safety Performance. In: Skjerve, A., Bye, A. (eds) Simulator-based Human Factors Studies Across 25 Years. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-003-8_6

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