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Control Rooms from a Human-Computer Interaction Perspective

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As defined in Paper 2 presented at the workshop, whose presentations and discussions are introduced in this paper, “control rooms are work spaces that serve the purpose of managing and operating physically dispersed systems, services and staff”.

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Mentler, T., Palanque, P., Harrison, M.D., Laerhoven, K.V., Masci, P. (2022). Control Rooms from a Human-Computer Interaction Perspective. In: Ardito, C., et al. Sense, Feel, Design. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_25

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