Ergonomic evaluation of the environment: a case study in a control room of the hydroelectric sector

Abstract

Representative systematic evaluation studies of the workspace and the extent to which that space is suitable for performing tasks have been developed by professionals engaged on finding evidence as to the importance of users and designers being joint participants in drawing up projects. In this context, this paper sets out to evaluate the environment of a control room in the hydroelectric sector, based on a multidisciplinary method which integrates ergonomics, architecture and environmental psychology so as to assess the influence of space on the user, and thus to identify the user´s level of satisfaction with it. It was observed that some adaptation strategies of the space for activities were not implemented satisfactorily, resulting in the need for further studies on making workspaces suitable.

Interaction between an operator and the control desk at the control room of the railway traffic: A Serbian experience

“…The errors which may happen while operating with commanding and signaling devices can lead to many undesired consequences, and even to the breakdown of the system, which includes the operator and the control desk (Lehto & Landry, 2012). During the development of the system, great attention should be paid to the knowledge of human factors (Crampin, 2017; Falcão & Soares, 2012; Heape & Lowe, 2012; Lee & Cha, 2019; Skřehot, Marek, & Houser, 2017), because human errors are often related to flaws in system design due to the lack of proper information (Huang & Bin, 2017; Smith, Blandford, & Back, 2009; Stojiljkovic, 2011). As suggested by Lundmark (2012), the control room environment should be designed for the operators and not for the technical equipment.…”