A Methodology for Analyzing the Dynamic Collective Organisation of Nuclear Power Plant Operators in Simulated Accidental Situations
Jacques Theureau, Geneviève Filippi, Geneviève Saliou, Pierre Vermersch · 2001
This research deals with modelling of emergency operation of a nuclear power plant involving hard-copy instructions distributed among different operators. Emergency operation is seen here as experienced, embodied, dynamically situated (including socially), indissolubly individual and collective, and cultural. Based on preliminary modelling of significant elementary units (SEU), sequences and macrosequences of the courses of experience of various agents, ·and on the collective interaction of those SEUs and sequences, two sorts of progress were made : the first, which lies just slightly lower than the SEU, concerns modelling of the dynamics of attention windows; the second concerns the dynamics of openings, i.e. the diachronic and synchronic relationships between the courses of experience of the different agents.