Understanding Cognitive and Collaborative Work: Observations in an Electric Transmission Operations Control Center

Obradovich, Jodi Heintz

doi:10.1177/1071181311551051

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“…Experiences and developments on SA in the automotive and aviation sectors also hold important findings [73,74,75]. Case studies on SA in control rooms provide insight on workflows in the mentioned domains as documented in [76,20,24,77,69,17,18,35,78,79].…”

Section: Features Of Modern Grid Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 91%

The future role of human operators in highly automated electric power systems

Prostejovsky

Brosinsky

Heussen

et al. 2019

Electric Power Systems Research

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Section: Features Of Modern Grid Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 91%

The future role of human operators in highly automated electric power systems

Prostejovsky

Brosinsky

Heussen

et al. 2019

Electric Power Systems Research

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“…Due to the aforementioned advantages of control rooms, several different industries have adopted such systems to enhance their processes. Electric power plants use control rooms to monitor electric supply grids and to communicate with field and generation operators [14]. Nuclear power plants also use control rooms to monitor and control operations, processes, and any deviations in the process state.…”

Section: Control Roomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction Control Room for Project Monitoring and Control

Ezzeddine¹,

Shehab²,

Srour³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Creative Construction E-Conference 2020

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The world is a dynamic and ever-changing environment leading decision makers to believe that from plan to execution, unforeseen conditions will undoubtedly occur. The military is known to face unforeseen obstacles while conducting the operations forcing leaders to plan deviations. The construction sector is not far from the military in terms of planning and executing under uncertainty. One common problem the sector faces is delay in completing tasks and, consequently, projects. To mitigate the effects of uncertainty during operations, the military uses control rooms in order to deal with the worst when it occurs. Military control rooms provide a comfortable and collaborative environment for teams to proactively anticipate, highlight and mitigate potential plan deviations and to resolve emerging problems and constraints fast and efficiently. This paper introduces the concept of military operation rooms to construction by proposing a technology-based Construction Control Room (CCR) where several commercially available technologies are integrated into one comprehensive and inclusive framework for monitoring and controlling ongoing construction activities. It is a collaborative space where all relevant design and construction entities are present. Site data and requests are received, monitored, and processed directly in the control room for proactive and corrective measures. Moreover, this paper presents the elements of a simulation-based tool which outputs the required number of personnel in the CCR. Real project data is obtained from a live project that one of the authors worked on in Western Europe. Data is used to build a discrete-event simulation model that mimics the workflow in the real system in order to analyze the flow of information within the room, suggest the optimum number of members that should be present in each entity, and monitor the resource utilization of each entity. The results of the model show the potential of using such control rooms for enhancing construction project delivery.

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“…Regulatory organizations such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) have since mandated data sharing and wide-area views (NERC, 2006) so that operators can detect and respond to incidents in other jurisdictions. The recent increase in intermittent renewable generation (Obradovich, 2011), market deregulation (Sanderson, Memisevic, & Wong, 2004), and cybersecurity risks (Ten, Liu, & Manimaran, 2008) have increased power grid operations’ complexity and thus information processing required of operators and EMSs.…”

Section: Wide-area Monitoringmentioning

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Keeping the Lights On Across the Continent

Tran¹,

Hilliard²,

Jamieson³

2017

Ergonomics in Design

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Operators need new visualizations to help them monitor increasingly complex power grids at wider geographical scopes. We developed a work domain analysis of power grid operations from interviews, focus groups, and observations. The work domain analysis helped determine information requirements for a wide-area monitoring design concept that follows ecological interface design principles. We validated the design concept in a usability evaluation, achieving an above-benchmark System Usability Scale score of 77 out of 90. This work domain analysis and ecological interface design process will equally apply to the design of other power grid monitoring displays.

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Understanding Cognitive and Collaborative Work: Observations in an Electric Transmission Operations Control Center

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

The future role of human operators in highly automated electric power systems

The future role of human operators in highly automated electric power systems

Construction Control Room for Project Monitoring and Control

Keeping the Lights On Across the Continent

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