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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham : A - Electronic, Electrical and computer engineering
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Article title
Modelling of human alarm handling response times: a case study of the Ladbroke Grove rail accident in the UK
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Ergonomics
Article number
-
Volume number
51
Issue number
4
First page of article
423
ISSN of journal
0014-0139
Year of publication
2008
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
This paper provides an evaluation (as an expert witness) to the Judge in the Ladbroke Grove trial, who suggested that a ‘reasonable response’ to an initial warning signal should be around 2 seconds. The paper uniquely defines and collects data with respect to this alarm handling application, and modelling demonstrated that the expected response should be around 20 seconds (which is commensurate with the time taken in the actual incident). This provides not only a novel application of human performance modelling to the domain of signal handling, but also a study using models of human performance for forensic analysis.
Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
B - Human Computer Interaction
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
