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The Specification and Analysis of Use Properties of a Nuclear Control System

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This chapter explores a layered approach to the analysis of the Nuclear Power Plant Control System described in Chap. 4. A model is specified to allow the analysis of use-centred properties based on generic templates. User interface properties include the visibility of state attributes, the clarity of the mode structure and the ease with which an action can be recovered from. Property templates are used as heuristics to ease the construction of requirements for the control system interface.

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Acknowledgements

José Creissac Campos and Michael Harrison were funded by project ref. NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000062, co-financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2 O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by national funds, through the Portuguese foundation for science and technology (FCT). Paul Curzon, Michael Harrison and Paolo Masci were funded by the CHI+MED project: Multidisciplinary Computer Human Interaction Research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices project, UK EPSRC Grant Number EP/G059063/1.

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Harrison, M.D., Masci, P.M., Campos, J.C., Curzon, P. (2017). The Specification and Analysis of Use Properties of a Nuclear Control System. In: Weyers, B., Bowen, J., Dix, A., Palanque, P. (eds) The Handbook of Formal Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51838-1_14

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