Improving amusement ride safety and inspection with human factors

通过我的研究，我的目标是提高人们直接与常见技术互动的有效和安全表现，比如游乐设施和传统的工业技术。我的下一个短期目标是通过应用人为因素（HF）来改进动手界面。首先，我们将修改骑行检查员使用的资源材料，以更多地利用触觉。我们期望这将提高检查员学习和应用这些资源的能力，我们将通过模拟实验来测试这一点。其次，我们将把高频界面设计原理应用到骑乘控制中，以提高操作的速度和准确性，我们将通过仿真实验得到结果，并收集和分析主观测量，包括心理负荷。我们还将观察性地研究骑手的行为与骑行设计特征和潜在错误来源的关系，并对这些关系进行定性建模。然后，我们将把这些发现转化为检查人员可以用来评估这些乘坐接口的原则。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高频信息。

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.