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Publications by Douglas G. Hoecker (bibliography)

1994

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Hoecker, Douglas G., Corker, Kevin M., Roth, Emilie M., Lipner, Melvin H. and Bunzo, Marilyn S. (1994): Man-Machine Design and Analysis System (MIDAS) Applied to a Computer-Based Procedure-Aiding System. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 38th Annual Meeting 1994. pp. 195-199.

“Difficult issues in design criteria confront the designers of human-computer interaction (HCI) implementations for future power plant control rooms. Such HCI-intensive control-room elements include "soft" controls and displays, computerized procedures, alarm presentations, and support for cooperative information-sharing among crewmembers. This shift in technology, from dedicated controls and displays in fixed locations to multifunction computer-driven operator workstations and wall displays, must focus not only on the required functionality of these interfaces, but also on their crafting and integration in such a way as to minimize the likelihood of operator error. With the objective of providing early insight into the cognitively error-prone consequences of selected interface dynamics, we are adapting a computer-based cognitive modeling tool, the Man-machine Integrated Design and Analysis System (MIDAS), to quantitatively model certain user requirements for operating different types of interfaces while dealing with high-consequence events in a control room setting. MIDAS was conceived and is being developed as a joint Army/NASA program a the NASA Ames Research Center to test different design approaches to computerizing the cockpits of advanced commercial and military aircraft This report presents preliminary results from a project to adapt the MIDAS tool to the nuclear control room domain. These results have enabled comparative observation of cognitive loading depending on whether a supervisor uses computerized procedures or paper procedures to direct crew response to a plant trip event. The results suggest that each technology for procedural support, in its current respective implementation, has its own strengths and weaknesses at different points in the control task dialog.”

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Hefley, William E., Buie, Elizabeth, Lynch, Gene F., Muller, Michael J., Hoecker, Douglas G., Carter, Jim and Roth, J. Thomas (1994): Integrating Human Factors with Software Engineering Practices. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 38th Annual Meeting 1994. pp. 315-319.

“Engineering processes and methodologies used in building tomorrow's systems must place a greater emphasis on designing usable systems that meet the needs of the systems' users and their tasks. This paper identifies the need for defining human factors and human-computer interaction (HCI) engineering activities that contribute to the design, development, and evaluation of usable and useful interactive systems, and presents a rationale for integrating these activities with software engineering and incorporating them into the system life cycle.”

1989

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Hoecker, Douglas G. (1989): Problem Solving by Multiple Experts in a Distributed Diagnostic Context. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 1464-1467.

“This paper outlines results, both behavioral and methodological, of a pilot study whose objective was to develop a method for learning why experienced technicians' diagnoses of a supposedly self-diagnostic avionics system appeared”

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