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IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors Special Issue on Human Factors in Advanced Applications for Process Control
www.tandfonline.com/uehf
Guest Editors
For any questions about this special issue, including questions about the relevance/suitability of a planned submission, please contact the Special Issue Editor(s) below.
Ling Rothrock, The Inge and Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, lxr28@engr.psu.edu
Peter Bullemer, Human Centered Solutions, pbullemer@applyhcs.com
Description
Over 20 years ago, Rasmussen and Vincente launched a revolution in cognitive ergonomics based in part on their work and experience in the nuclear power industry (Rasmussen, 1983; Vicente and Rasmussen, 1992). Their initial work
addressed issues in supervisory control and human errors that later broadened to widely used concepts such as cognitive systems engineering (1994) and cognitive work analysis (Vicente, 1995). In the years since their research investigations in the power industry, the state of process control technologies within power plants have improved dramatically while human information processing capabilities have remained the same.
This special issue will examine recent research and development on the performance of human operators interacting with
process control applications in the large process industries.
Topics
Topics of interests and relevance include, but are not limited to:
• Interface design for process control applications
• Visualization for supervisory control and operations activity
• Alarm system design and operator performance
• Adaptive procedures for dynamic processes
Submissions
All papers should be submitted through the journal’s online submission website
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oehf.
Complete information about the journal, including author instructions, review criteria and procedures, and submission templates, are available at
http://www.tandfonline.com/uehf.
All submissions must abide by the journal’s requirements, and the journal’s regular processes will be followed for review of submissions.
During the online submission process, please indicate that a submission is for this special issue. There will be a prompt for this at the submission website.
Timeline
Submission of Manuscripts Due: 1 October 2013 Notification of First Review Decision: 31 January 2014 Submission of Revision Due: 1 March 2014
Expected Publication: Spring 2014
REFERENCES
Rasmussen, J. R. (1983). Skills, Rules and Knowledge: Signals, Signs, Symbols, and Other Distinctions in Human Performance Models.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 13(3), 257-266.
Rasmussen, J., Pejtersen, A., & Goodstein, L. P. (1994). Cognitive Systems Engineering. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Vicente, K. J. (1999). Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-based Work. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
Vicente, K. J., & Rasmussen, J. R. (1992). Ecological Interface Design:
Theoretical Foundations. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 22(4), 589-606.
