Improving amusement ride safety and inspection with human factors

通过我的研究，我的目标是提高人们与普通技术（如游乐设施和传统工业技术）直接互动的有效性和安全性。我的下一个短期目标是通过人为因素（HF）的应用来改善动手界面。首先，我们将修改乘坐检查员使用的资源材料，以更多地利用触觉。我们预计这将提高视察员学习和应用这些资源的能力，我们将使用模拟实验来测试这一点。其次，我们将调整和应用高频接口设计原则，以乘坐控制，以提高速度和准确性的操作，我们将获得实验结果，使用模拟，也收集和分析主观措施，包括精神负荷。我们还将观察研究车手的行为与乘坐设计特点和潜在的错误来源，并定性建模这些关系。然后，我们将把这些发现转化为检查员可以用来评估这些游乐设施接口的原则。作为这项研究的一部分，我们将继续开发调查和分析工具，以增加从事故中获得的HF信息。

Through my research, I aim to improve the effective and safe performance of people interacting directly with common technology, such as amusement rides and conventional industrial technologies. My next short term objectives relate to improving hands-on interfaces through the application of Human Factors (HF). First we will modify resource materials used by ride inspectors to make more use of the sense of touch. We expect this will improve inspectors' ability to learn from and apply these resources, and we will test this experimentally using simulations. Secondly, we will adapt and apply HF interface-design principles to ride controls to improve speed and accuracy of operation, and we will obtain results experimentally using simulation and also collect and analyse subjective measures including mental workload. We will also observationally study riders' behaviour in relation to ride design features and potential sources of error, and model these relationships qualitatively. We will then translate these findings into principles that inspectors may use to evaluate these ride interfaces. As part of this research, we will continue to develop investigation and analysis tools that will increase HF information obtained from accidents.