Models of Mental Strategies in Process Plant Diagnosis
Published 1 January 1981
Jens Rasmussen
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A rapid increase in efforts to design computer-controlled man-system interfaces which are effective in supporting operators’ identification of the actual operating state of the system.
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It has long been recognised that operators' misidentification of abnormal system states plays a significant role in major system break-downs (see e.g. Cornell, 1968, Rasmussen 1968) and the problem has been subject to much discussion since the Three Mile Island incident. Consequently, there has been a rapid increase in efforts to design computer-controlled man-system interfaces which are effective in supporting operators' identification of the actual operating state of the system.
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