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The aim of the present study was to investigate control room operators’ troubleshooting performance and adaptive readiness in nuclear domain with a new version of a virtual reality control room (VR CR) system. The VR CR was a high fidelity copy of a physical CR. The test session consisted of five simulated incidents. Two operator crews were recruited. In addition, one separate crew participated in the pilot test. This paper focuses on analysis of individual process-tracing and debriefing interviews, performed after each simulator run. Our results showed that all the failures were successfully found and perceived with one exception. The operators were also able to formulate hypotheses about the cause of the failure and make plans on how to test a hypothesis and evaluate the evidence. On the other hand, the crews experienced some problems in problem monitoring and process control due to the problems caused by the VR system.
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Laarni, J., et al.: Building cognitive readiness and resilience skills for situation assessment and diagnostic reasoning in a VR CR. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds.) HCI International 2020 - Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1225. Springer, Cham (2020)
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The authors would like to thank the designers, the simulator trainers and the operators involved in this study.
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Laarni, J., Liinasuo, M., Pakarinen, S., Lukander, K., Passi, T. (2021). Control Room Operators’ Cognitive Strategies in Complex Troubleshooting. In: Ayaz, H., Asgher, U., Paletta, L. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 259. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80285-1_29
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