The following journal paper has been accepted and will be available online on “IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors” in the Special Issue on Human
Author: Davide Manca
CAPE Forum 2014 was held at Politecnico di Milano on 12-14 May and PSE-Lab was one of the organizers. The Forum was intended to make young researchers
The main task of Field Operators is the interaction with physical devices that are distributed in the plant. Field Operators can thus exploit some of their senses, i.e. sight,
Control Room Operators are typically in front of an artificial representation of the real environment, where a set of synoptic displays in the Distributed Control
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The occurrence of abnormal situations in the Process Industry is not a rare event. Â USD 10 billion is lost every year on account of abnormal
Hyperrealism and photorealism are two ways of expressing the same concept: artworks created by man that appear or-even-better are absolutely realistic. These artworks are so
I’ve just come across the hyperrealistic drawings of Kelvin Okafor. I was really impressed by his drawings. They are gorgeous and incredible in one word: outstanding.
Every year millions of euros/dollars are lost in process industry on account of several accidents and abnormal situations. Several analysis revealed that most of them
The assessment of operators cannot be reliable until the integration of concepts and theories from Human Factors is considered. Every task demands difference cognitive processes. One
Starting from the eighties of last century, the scientific community met the need of industrial companies for evaluating and assessing the performance of their processes
OTS is the acronym of Operator Training Simulation. We developed an OTS for thermal treatment of toxic wastes to train the plant operators involved in critical
Performex is a software which evaluates the performance of Operators in a systematic, hierarchical, consistent way resulting in quantitative and qualitative data in real time.