Projects-Ongoing

Investigating Site Authority’s and Operators’ Risk Awareness in Refinery Stations

Ongoing

Research Team: Honeywell, Penn State University

Sponsor: Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) Consortium

This project aims to identify site authority and operators’ perception gaps of risk in refinery stations for different operating conditions to guide future developments, such as decision support, information integration, display design, etc. The project is presently in its initial stage, where a metric has been developed evaluating risk perceptions and a visualization tool created illustrating perception gaps.

Evaluating the Performance of Experts and Novices on Candidate Overview Displays Based on Existing Visualization Technologies

July 15, 2011 – Present (until July, 2013)

Research Team: Jung Hyup Kim, Ben Noah

Sponsor: Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) Consortium

The objective of this project is to evaluate the performance of candidate overview displays
across experts and novices. The broad criterion for evaluation is that a span-of-control
overview display should provide operators with at-a-glance situation awareness so that they
are aware of how the process is running and what direction it is heading.

Investigating the Impact of Operator Action Performance Feedback in Metacognitive Situation Awareness

January, 2012 – Present (until December, 2012)

Researcher: Jung Hyup Kim

Sponsor: Honeywell ACS Labs

The objective of this project is to investigate impact of an operator’s action performance
feedback in a dynamic learning environment on the metacognitive monitoring process.
The goal is to investigate the significance of metacognition in training to execute dynamic
control tasks.