Title :
Situational awareness through the interface: evaluating safety in safety-critical control systems
Author_Institution :
ASACS Safety & Stand. Unit
Abstract :
Modern safety-critical control systems are often highly interactive systems situated in dynamic environments. In complex systems such as these, the quality of the information acquired through the interface can contribute significantly to system failure and the design of the human-computer interface can have a profound effect on operator performance and system safety. This paper begins with a brief discussion on the nature of safety-critical control systems and an examination of the hazards peculiar to these systems. It concludes with a brief outline of a method of evaluating the contribution of the human-computer interface to situational awareness in a military air defence control system
Keywords :
interactive systems; air defence control system; complex systems; human factors; human-computer interface; interactive systems; military system; safety-critical control systems; situational awareness;
Conference_Titel :
Human Interfaces in Control Rooms, Cockpits and Command Centres, 1999. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bath
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-715-2
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19990173