文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：An Experimental Study on Three General Interface Layout Designs for Chemical Process Plants

作者：Liu, C. J.[1];Lin, Y.[2];Teng, H.[1];Wang, Z. D.[1];Zhang, W. J.[1,3]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Mech & Power Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA;[3]Univ Saskatchewan, Dept Mech Engn, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W0, Canada

年份：2015

卷号：25

期号：4

起止页码：500

外文期刊名：HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING & SERVICE INDUSTRIES

收录：;EI(收录号：20143600030933);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000355880700009)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000355880700009)】；

基金：We would like to thank Shanghai Blue Bird M&E company for offering In-touch software and thank the students who kindly participated in the experiment. We would also like to thank National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for a partial financial support to the corresponding author through a NSERC CRD grant. The research is also partially supported by a grant of East China University of Science and Technology through a program of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Human-machine interface; FBS; PCP; Layout design; Human error

摘要：The human-machine interface design is not a new problem; however, existing knowledge appears to be focused either on interface conceptual design, which determines what information at what time needs to be displayed, or on interface detailed design, which determines the form of display elements. This article presents a study on interface layout design. Three interface layout designs were proposed based on the proximity compatibility priniciple, which were on the same interface conceptual design. In particular, the first interface layout design is with the highest degree of proximity cognition and the second and third with a reduced degree of proximity cognition. They are called sophisticated, semisophisticated, and nonsophisticated interfaces, respectively. An experiment with a simple process plant was conducted to understand user behaviors on the three interfaces. It is noted that in order to provide an unbiased comparative evaluation of these interfaces the same application problem and similar look-and-feel forms of interfaces were designed. In the experiment, three general classes of tasks were considered, namely, normal control operation, fault detection (or monitoring), and fault diagnosis. Two categories of measures were used: the performance measure and the subjective measure. The major results obtained from the experiment are 1) the nonsophisticated interface is the best for fault detections in terms of performance measure; besides, this interface has the lowest mental workload for fault detection; 2) the sophisticated interface is the best for normal operation in terms of performance measure; 3) there appears no significant difference for fault diagnosis in terms of performance measures for all these three interfaces; 4) for normal operation and fault diagnosis, the mental workloads for the three interfaces have no significant difference. Overall, the experiment suggests that the nonsophisticated interface be used in practice with additional two reasons: 1) most of time in the chemical process plant today is the fault detection or operation monitoring task, and 2) it is relatively easier for the nonsophisticated interface to adapt to changes in the chemical process plant design, which are common in today's manufacturing environments. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.