Guiding the Operators Attention Among a Plurality of Operator Workstation Screens

• In the age of extensive industrial digitalization, industrial operators are facing increasing pressure from the growing amount of data being delivered to industrial control rooms. Humans limited perceptual system is the bottleneck when it comes to processing large volumes of information. Too many screens crammed with textual and numerical data make the user disoriented in information potentially leading to fatal mistakes and insufficient situation awareness. This paper explores possibilities of guiding operators attention to the most urgent information by means of visual aid systems. In this work, two concepts of such systems were developed and evaluated in a lab environment. The evaluation results indicate a clear benefit of using the developed concepts.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Robotteknik och automation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Robotics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Industrial control room; industrial operator; industrial operator workstation; focal/peripheral vision; attention; visual aid; attention guiding technique

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