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Much electrical generation in the developed world is now conducted within deregulated energy markets, providing new layers of uncertainty for human controllers and new challenges for analysts wishing to understand and support cognitive work. In this paper we outline some of the challenges encountered when attempting to describe the work domain of hydroelectric power generation in a dynamic deregulated electricity market. The market component of the work domain analysis appears not to be readily amendable to breakdown as a familiar functional structure. Control task analysis is complicated by the fact that the human operator is the frontline, real-time, manager of business risk. Different epochs of planning may require separate functional structures.

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Analysing Cognitive Work of Hydroelectricity Generation in a Dynamic Deregulated Market

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