Linda A Macaulay
Professor of System Design / Manchester Business School
The University of Manchester, Booth Street East, M15 6PB
info@lindamacaulay.com

Control Room 2000 | ||
Duration: | 9 months (1990) | |
Funding body: | Electricity Research and Development Council | |
Project effort: | 6 person months | |
Grant value: | £19, 740 | |
Status: | Principal investigator | |
Industrial collaboration: | MANWEB, NORWEB, SEEBOARD | |
Co-investigator: | Professor Paul Layzell (Department of Computation) | |
One of the problems being addressed by the electricity research and development centre at the time was that of the increasing complexity of the control room wall-diagram. Several regional electricity distribution companies were examining the use of graphics in order to facilitate viewing images of the wall-diagram and associated data on a VDU screen. The concern was that this approach was short term and too heavily conditioned by generations of experience with wall-diagrams. The purpose of the Control Room 2000 project was to take a 'fresh look' at the information needs of the control room staff. In particular, to view the problem from a five to ten year perspective and to use the knowledge and understanding gained by such an analysis to explore alternatives to the wall-diagram that will be more suited to the next generation of computer-aided systems. |