Ergonomic principles of modern information provision on viewing equipment and consequences for their use in nuclear power station control rooms. Vol. 2

This report volume 2 contains a collection of principles of configuration, which were worked out in the study 'Ergonomic principles of modern information provision on viewing equipment and consequences for their use in nuclear power station control rooms' supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The provision of the catalogue of variables and performance as an event of the assessment of the literature was a necessary precondition for the systematic development of VDU screen representation. This principles of configuration were verified in an expensive experimental investigation. The catalogue offers two accesses to the relevant configuration recommendations. If the requirements which are made of the operator in a certain situation are known, e.g. as a result of a task analysis, the variables to be taken into account in the configuration and the associated configuration recommendations can be found in the performance catalogue. It is, however, always possible to see the individual variables in the alphabetical variables catalogue as regards their use for the configuration of a certain problem. This catalogue reproduces the present state of ergonomic configuration recommendations. In the context of the assessment and the development of VDU representation for use in power station control rooms, work will continue on the present basis. (orig./GL)