title: An integrated computer-based procedure for teamwork in digital nuclear power plants.
abstract: Computer-based procedures (CBPs) are expected to improve operator performance in nuclear power plants (NPPs), but they may reduce the openness of interaction between team members and harm teamwork consequently. To support teamwork in the main control room of an NPP, this study proposed a team-level integrated CBP that presents team members' operation status and execution histories to one another. Through a laboratory experiment, we compared the new integrated design and the existing individual CBP design. Sixty participants, randomly divided into twenty teams of three people each, were assigned to the two conditions to perform simulated emergency operating procedures. The results showed that compared with the existing CBP design, the integrated CBP reduced the effort of team communication and improved team transparency. The results suggest that this novel design is effective to optim team process, but its impact on the behavioural outcomes may be moderated by more factors, such as task duration.
  The study proposed and evaluated a team-level integrated computer-based procedure, which present team members' operation status and execution history to one another. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional procedure design, the integrated design reduces the effort of team communication and improves team transparency.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Industrial Engineering , Tsinghua University , Beijing , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Wenzhu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Jiajie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Zhizhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014941:Work Simplification; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: computer-based procedures; nuclear power plants; shared information about team members; teamwork