Improving collaborative work and project management in a nuclear power plant design team: A human-centered design approach

Human centered design for nuclear power plant control room modernization

The use of nuclear power plants to produce electric energy is a safety-critical process where ultimate operational decisions still relies with the control room operators. Thus it is important to provide the best possible decision support through effective supervisory control interfaces. A human centered design approach, based on cognitive task analysis methods, was used to observe the operators...

A Human-Centered Design Approach

Work-centered Design: a Cognitiive Engineering Approach to System Design

This paper provides an overview of an emerging cognitive engineering framework that can be used to guide engineering analysis and design decision-making. As the name implies, the Work-Centered Design (WCD) framework considers the design problem from the perspective of an analysis of work. It pays special attention to an analysis of aiding requirements, including issues about direct automation a...

Design for Safety: A cognitive engineering approach to the control and management of nuclear power plant

This paper presents an analytical approach to design for safety that is based on 30 years of experience in the field of Human-centered design. This field is often qualified as governing safety–critical systems where risk management is a crucial issue. We need to better understand what the main facets of safety are that should be taken into account during the design and development processes. Th...

THE INFLUENCE OF A Collaborative PROCUREMENT approach using INTEGRATED DESIGN in CONSTRUCTION ON project team PERFORMANCE

Purpose This paper aims to study the influence of procurement on the performance of integrated design teams. Design/methodology/approach The research paradigm is based on Russian socio-constructivist approach to activity theory. Activity theory, as opposed to natural or social science, is a design science approach that focuses on the context aspect of project. A triangulation of qualitative res...