This work in energy control rooms spans from 2019 to present (funded into 2027). We are looking for more collaborations to expand our research and amplify the impact of our research beyond energy to all types of control rooms.
Partnering with AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) we focused on understanding congnitive load in energy control rooms. This work involved eye tracking and heart rate monitoring.
During the above work, we realised the analysis of eye tracking data is not easy. So we developed some software to impove this. We focus on our above control room case study in the following publication.
This continued into the opensource Gazealytics software
Funded by CSIRO, Stage (4)5 AR-PST, we focus on human-centred approach to understand interface and application use. This research was carred out in partnership with AEMO
We identify 7 painpoints, 5 design vision principles, 10(+ 1 interim) recommendations and 25 guidelines for best practice for visual data communication.
Final report and paper pending publication.
Repeating a workshop designed for AEMO, we ran the same workshop for control room of the future for operators across multiple sectors. This included breaking into tables by 15 topics (including energy transmission, water, fire and rescue, ergonimics and human factors and more).
Results are pending publication.
Funded by a Zema Scholarship (AEMO), PhD student Merry Haong is focusing on innovating energy network diagrams. This continued work explores changing and morphing the network design depending on the task at hand.
The recent paper includes observations at AEMO control rooms:
This builds on her prior Masters research exploring the benefit of geography in energy network diagrams.
Funded by CSIRO, Stage 6 AR-PST, we focus on human-centred approach to innovating and integrating information into the single line diagram. Further information July 2026+