Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of automation awareness as a part of
situation awareness. The development and maintenance of automation awareness
in a nuclear power plant control room is considered to be a continuous process
that comprises of perceiving the current status of automation, comprehending
the status and its meaning to the system behaviour as well as estimating the
future statuses and their meanings. Good automation awareness should be
evident in the process operators’ ability to act on automation if needed in a
situation. The question of what is sufficient automation awareness is also
addressed briefly. In addition to the literature-based theory, this paper
presents a simulation environment developed for automation awareness related
studies. Special focus is put on the operator user interface of the simulator
as, according to literature, the user interface is a significant contributor
to the development of automation awareness. The simulator user interface
design is based on three guidelines derived from literature: good
observability of automation, minimized workload and transparent failure
management.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
| Event | Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, EHPG 2013 - Storefjell, Norway Duration: 10 Mar 2013 → 15 Mar 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, EHPG 2013 |
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| Abbreviated title | EHPG 2013 |
| Country/Territory | Norway |
| City | Storefjell |
| Period | 10/03/13 → 15/03/13 |