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News Archive

  • October 25, 2019
  • October 25, 2019

    Methods are the processes research and development teams follow to create tools for operators. They typically follow three phases.

    Research--Learn about rail operations, how operators do their work, what goals they need to...

  • October 25, 2019

    Learn how work is actually done in real circumstances. 

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  • October 25, 2019

    Find best arrangement of elements in a design

    Link Analysis (LA) can be used to arrange the location of equipment and individuals in a workplace, and to arrange controls and displays on a console based on how often...

  • October 25, 2019

    Understand how work is done, and describe it in terms of flow, time, or elements. 

    Functional Analysis is an umbrella term for a variety of methods that can be used early in the system development process (Nemeth, 2004)....

  • October 25, 2019

    Discover what activities operators perform on the job, and how often.

    Activity Analysis (AA) can be used to document anything that a person does while performing a task. There are two purposes for AA: to determine the...

  • October 25, 2019

    Learn how operators percieve the amount of work they need to perform

    What is workload?

    Humans have limited attentional resources to process information. Given these limits, workload that is too high...

  • October 25, 2019

    Learn about the lived experiences of operatos in actual work conditions

    Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) is a family of tools and techniques to elicit, analyze, and represent cognitive aspects of performance, and the operational...

  • October 25, 2019

    Learn from operators they they are thinking about while performing tasks

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  • October 25, 2019

    Learn about specific topics under controlled (lab) conditions

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