On the Right Track: Systematic Implementation of Ergonomics in Railway Network Control

Getting what they need when they need it

“…However, for CHI to successfully meet family caregiver information needs, it is necessary that it be designed to account for the unique sociotechnical context in which family caregiving occurs [9,10]. Sociotechnical context refers to the context within a purposeful system influenced by interacting components such as humans, technologies and environment [11,12]. For example, the sociotechnical context of family caregiving includes the level of workload the family caregiver incurs, the social context of family caregiving, and the complexity of caregiving tasks [12][13][14].…”

Rail human factors: Past, present and future

“…From the point of view of signalling and control, interest (at least as reflected in published work) was probably less in the 1960s to 1980s than it was for driving, but there have been a number of different contributions since (Carey, 1992;Collis and Schmid, 2001;Cordiner et al, 2001;de Waard, 1996;Fay and Schnieder, 1998;Lenior, 1993;Luff and Heath, 2001;McDonald, 2001;Nichols et al, 2001;Olsson et al, 1996;Reid et al, 2000;Vanderhaegen and Telle, 1998;Wilson et al, 2001). A good deal of this research has dealt with the mental workload of signallers, most recently by Pickup and colleagues (e.g.…”

The Operational Demand Evaluation Checklist (ODEC) of workload for railway signalling

“…A number of techniques were employed in our own early signalling workload studies (e.g. Bristol and Nichols, 2001;Nichols et al, 2001;Wilson et al, 2001). The full NASA TLX was used as well as a cut down version of three of its scales.…”