Design of Safety Critical Systems

The course will teach students to understand how to create safety critical designs with particular focus on safety. In order to accomplish this, knowledge is provided in theories of cognitive ergonomics, situation awareness and principles of display design. Some of the major topics covered are as follows The history of industrial human machine interfaces and safety critical systems Understanding human error Understanding human perception Displays and Controls Alarms Situation awareness These topics will be explored in depth through the examples in ship control rooms (ship bridge), (or) nuclear control rooms (or) air traffic control rooms (ATCs) (or) safety critical systems in the healthcare sector.

On completion of this course, the students will at the level of: Knowledge: - Demonstrate how cognitive & physical abilities impacts safety in safety critical designs. - Demonstrate the difference between traditional methods of design & the ones suitable for safety critical designs. Skills: - Create concepts for safety critical designs that take into consideration users and use context. - Iteratively develop safety critical designs from early non-functional sketches to mock-ups. General Competence: - Understand safety in the context of safety critical design.

-Lectures
-Group work
-Homework Assignments related to Project work
-Project work