• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

In spite of the rapid increase of computer use in our everyday life, not much effort is undertaken to take measures to prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders(MSDs). In this paper, we suggest a movable armrest which would lower the exposure to the MSDs, especially on the vicinity of arm. The aim of this study is to determine whether there are differences in wrist angle variations, forearm muscular loads, comfort and normal performance between the invented movable armrest and a conventional armrest when using a computer mouse. Eight experienced VDU workers performed a standardized simple task set which consists of 15 detailed tasks with each armrest. The wrist angle variations in the right arm were registered by electrogoniometer and the muscle activities in the shoulder, deltoid and two extensors in the forearm were also registered by electromyograph. The subjects rated perceived comfort while performing the tasks with each armrest. Working with the invented armrest, compared to general, gave significantly decreased wrist angle variations at most of the detailed tasks of both biaxial movements. Moreover, as the distance of targets increased, the difference of muscle activities in two different situations trend to be increasing. At the same time, in work with invented armrest, the subjects rated more comfort and they showed decreased normal performances in 8 detailed tasks which were mainly caused by macro moving time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.254-259
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• 1995

Large scale display panel(LSDP) is a main component in the next generation main control rooms. LSDP is located at the front of VDU-based operator's workstation and plays an important role in providing operators with overall information of plant status through mimic diagram, text/digit, graph, and so on. A critical matter determined at the first stage of LSDP design is how much information is displayed, because the information density of LSDP affects operator's performance. Many human factors guidelines recommend low information density of displays to avoid degrade of operator's performance, but doesn't provide a useful limit of information density. In this paper, we considered information density as the number of plant parameters and investigated the proper number of plant parameters through a human factors experiment. The experiment with 4 subjects was carried out and response time, error, and heart rate variation as criterion measures were recorded and analyzed. As the results, it is identified that the proper number of parameters in a LSDP is about thirty.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 2009

The analog or partly digital typed interface of main control room in nuclear power plant (NPP) is gradually being replaced to the totally digitalized interface suitable for the digital environment. SKN 3,4 Nuclear Power Plant is currently developed in such a way to employ advanced displays and controls such as computerized procedure system(CPS), large display panel(LDP), and Soft control. According to the developed design process, the main control room (MCR) of the SKN3,4 was aesthetically designed based on a design concept of the health and sustainability and technically evaluated with human factors guidelines, which somehow lack of the confidence on the evaluation for the rapidly changing digital environment. The suitable review guideline for the digitalized interface and the environment was developed such as the guideline for CPS with information displays on VDU. For the guideline development, tremendous guidelines and technical papers related to evaluation issues of digital environment has been collected, analyzed and transformed to electric database forms and then built on database management system, called Design Review Supporting System to retrieve the appropriate issues for the practical usage of evaluators-in-field.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.200-202
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• 2005

국내 원자력발전소는 현재 19호기가 가동중이나 1978년에 상업운전을 시작한 고리 1호기와 1983년에 상업운전을 시작한 월성 1호기는 설비가 노후화된 상태이다. 월성 1호기의 경우 향후 20년 정도 상업운전을 계속하기 위한 목적으로 다양한 분야에서 설비개선계획 (refurbishment programme)을 수립하고 진행중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 월성 1호기의 Human System Interfaces (HSI) 설비개선을 위한 인간공학 설계지침을 개발하려는 계획을 설명한다. 설계지침은 VDU기반 정보표시장치, 전통적인 정보표시창 및 CRT기반 정보표시계통, 유지보수 및 시험, 그리고 제어실 및 현장 판넬 둥을 대상으로 개발하는데, 설계지침의 개발을 위해 인허가 관련자료의 조사, 월성 1호기 건설에 사용되었던 설계지침의 검토, 월성 1호기 HSI 현장실사, 주제어실 및 현장 운전원과의 면담, 기존 인간공학 표준 및 지침의 검토, 주기적안정성검토 후속조치 검토 등을 수행하고, 주기적인 HSI 사용자들과의 토의를 통하여 활용도가 높은 설계지침을 개발할 계획이다.