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Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems pp 163–195Cite as

Human Factors Engineering in Large-scale Digital Control Systems

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An approach to improve human reliability is introduced in this chapter. Major methods to analyze human reliability have been reviewed in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 presents human factors-related activities to design a human-machine interface (HMI), especially for nuclear power plant (NPP) applications. Human factors engineering (HFE) is strictly applied in the nuclear industry. Designing a good HMI enhances human reliability and prevents human errors, as well as helping with training and proceduralization. An HFE process to design an HMI for a safety critical system that requires high reliability for operators consists of three steps: analysis, design, and verification & validation (V&V).

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Kim, J., Seong, P. (2009). Human Factors Engineering in Large-scale Digital Control Systems. In: Seong, P. (eds) Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-384-2_8

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