The Effects of Computer-Based Procedures on Team Communication and Performance in Nuclear Power Plants Main Control Rooms

• Main Authors: Ren-Jie Huang, 黃人傑
• Other Authors: Chiuhsiang Joe Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8e93tf

碩士 === 中原大學 === 工業與系統工程研究所 === 98 === For a main control room (MCR) of a nuclear power plant (NPP), a team of three operators have been adopted to enhance the safety of all the scenarios including general, abnormal, and emergency procedures completely. In order to reduce the errors of operators, operating procedures were developed to promote performance. Due to the change of the task of the operators, and the automation following the digitalization of the plant, there might be changes in each team member’s role, function, and the mutual communication and cooperation may also be altered, influencing the teamwork performance. Thus, evaluating interaction of the team operators in the MCR of NPP would be one of the intriguing issues of human factor engineering (HFE) research. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to measure the effects of computer-based procedures on team communication, behavior, situation awareness, and performance in the MCR of NPP. This study involved a survey, comprised of two sets of videos and questionnaires using INTERACT and SART. The quantitative analysis was conducted through descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation. Results of this study showed that teams had lower communication in the decision making process and higher situation awareness, and reduced the time of search when using computer-based procedures, but there is no statistically significant effect on team performance. This study contributed to the design of computerized procedures and levels of computer-based procedure systems automation to the human-system interface (HSI) design.