[SystemSafety] power plant user interfaces

Steve Tockey Steve.Tockey at construx.com
Sun Jul 12 22:06:04 CEST 2015


Mike,
Since you brought up Don Norman, a couple of interesting "how not to do it" web sites include:

*) http://www.baddesigns.com

*) Do a web search using the term "User interface hall of shame", there's more than one

*) http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com


Cheers,

-- steve




From: <systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>> on behalf of Mike Ellims <michael.ellims at tesco.net<mailto:michael.ellims at tesco.net>>
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:55 PM
To: 'Gergely Buday' <gbuday at gmail.com<mailto:gbuday at gmail.com>>, "systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>" <systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>>
Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] power plant user interfaces

The starting point might be a undergraduate text on human factors and design such as  Sanders and McCormick; which is perhaps a long in the tooth (1993) but has a relatively broad coverage, a used copy is quite reasonable. Does anyone know of something a bit more recent with the same sort of coverage???

An interesting take on the subject is given by Norman in “the Design of Everyday Things” which looks at quite a few BADLY designed everyday things. A recommended read. I think of this every time I have to stop and decode the BEEP BEPP BEEP knobs on the gas hob. Of relevance here is perhaps figure 4.6 which show two knobs at a nuclear plant replaced by beer keg handles so operators can tell them apart….


From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Gergely Buday
Sent: 12 July 2015 20:01
To: systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: [SystemSafety] power plant user interfaces

Dear Experts,
what is the basic literature on power plant user interfaces, especially if it is a nuclear power plant?
I have learned that the Three Mile Island accident was partly due to errors in the control interface.

- Gergely


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