Simulation study of an ecological interface for nuclear power plants

Ecological Interface Design for Pasteurizer II: A Process Description of Semantic Mapping

“…More than half the participants using the ecological interface explicitly remarked on the importance of the boundary regions in the energy and goals displays for their control of the system. These results are consistent with a body of work that indicates the need for information about higher-level properties of systems for effective control (Janzen & Vicente, 1998;Pawlak & Vicente, 1996;Sakuma et al, 1995). Participants considered the mass flow balance and heat exchange displays less important overall for control and so gave them lower ratings.…”

“…The second approach is to adapt preexisting depictions that are already used as displays in related systems. The Dual Reservoir System Simulation (DURESS) funnel displays for mass and energy have been adapted by incorporating multiple mass and energy funnels into a series of mass and energy balance graphics for multiple subsystems (Sakuma et al, 1995). The funnel displays have also been adapted to show processes in a cement milling plant (van Paassen, 1995).…”

“…The conceptual foundations of ecological interface design (EID) have been described in various places (Vicente & Rasmussen, 1990. Many evaluations have been performed of ecological interfaces against nonecological interfaces (Ham & Yoon, 2001;Reising, 1999;Sakuma, Itoh, Yoshikawa, & Monta, 1995;Vicente, Christoffersen, & Pereklita, 1995), and results suggest that EID is a promising approach to interface design for complex systems. However, relatively few descriptions exist of the mechanics of designing an ecological interface, and most of those focus on how information at different levels of an abstraction-decomposition space is mapped to computer screen real estate (Burns, 2000a(Burns, , 2000bDinadis & Vicente, 1996.…”

Designing Displays Under Ecological Interface Design: Towards Operationalizing Semantic Mapping

“…An example is given herein for the energy balance of a pasteurization system. Another example uses the DURESS "funnel" displays that represent mass h or energy balances by incorporating mass funnels into a series of mass balance graphics for multiple subsystems, and incorporating energy funnels into a series of energy graphics that include Rankine cycle backdrops representing residual heat removal in a nuclear power system (Sakuma, Itoh, Yoshikawa, & Monta, 1995).…”