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Within the context of this conference, we want to know the factors which affect human ability to detect and diagnose process failures, as a basis for console and job design. Understandably, human factors engineers want fully specified models for the human operator’s behaviour. It is also understandable that these engineers should make use of modelling procedures which are available from control engineering. These techniques are attractive for two reasons. They are sophisticated and well understood. They have also been very successful at giving first-order descriptions of human compensatory tracking performance in fast control tasks such as flying. In this context they are sufficiently useful for the criticism, that they are inadequate as a psychological theory of this behaviour, to be irrelevant for many purposes. Engineers have therefore been encouraged to extend the same concepts to other types of control task. In this paper we will be considering particularly the control of complex slowly changing industrial processes, such as steel making, petrochemicals and power generation.
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Bainbridge, L. (1981). Mathematical Equations or Processing Routines?. In: Rasmussen, J., Rouse, W.B. (eds) Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures. NATO Conference Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9230-3_18
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