Advanced control rooms and crew performance issues: implications for human reliability

Advanced control room designs were evaluated with respect to their relationship to crew performance. Results of the evaluation show that despite the fact that ACR technology can potentially improve system performance, it can also create a negative impact on human performance and create opportunities for human errors. The lack of knowledge about the role of human operators on human performance, available databases and subject matter expertise were found to contribute to the inability of adequately evaluating human functioning in advanced control rooms.