fleche droite Symposium Topics

Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems

  • Human-centered design and automation.
  • Methodology, principles, practice.

Analysis

  • Cognitive task analysis, task and function allocation.
  • Risk assessment, accident analysis, and operational risk analysis.
  • Modelling of human performance, reliability, and mental workload.

Design

  • Work organization, job design, and team design.
  • Graphical interfaces, auditory interfaces, multimedia design.
  • Multi-modal interactions in real and virtual environments.
  • Functional and adaptive interfaces, interface agents.
  • Intelligent and agent systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms.
  • Support for operational risk management, system operation, maintenance, and supervision.
  • Information management and knowledge retrieval.
  • Barrier free and changeable designs.

Evaluation

  • Evaluation of performance, usability, safety, and workload.
  • Laboratory simulation, field experiments and observation.

Remote, Network and Internet Systems

  • Remote co-ordination, mobile workplaces, wearable computers.
  • Network and web interfaces, distributed multi-agent systems.
  • Internet-based fault diagnostics and knowledge support.
  • Embedded automatic systems in shared environments.
  • Collaborative systems and distributed work.
  • Mobile networking, virtual reality, telepresence.

Human/Humane Aspects of Human-Machine Systems

  • Human mastering of machines, humanisation of work.
  • Situation awareness, expressiveness, creativity.
  • Sensorimotor processes, cognitive processes.
  • Sensory modalities: visual, auditive, haptic.
  • Neuro-ergonomics, virtual life.
  • Human roles in different countries, cultures, and stages of automation.
  • Collaboration.

Application Domains of Human-Machine Systems

  • Adaptive and Learning Systems.
  • Manufacturing Plant Control.
  • Aerospace.
  • Automotive Control.
  • Cognition and Control.
  • Computers for Control.
  • Control Design.
  • Control Education.
  • Control in Agriculture.
  • Control of Biotechnological Systems.
  • Cost Oriented Automation.
  • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
  • Economic and Business Systems.
  • Enterprise Integration and Networking.
  • Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Large Scale Complex Systems.
  • Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control.
  • Marine Systems.
  • Modelling and Control of Biomedical Systems.
  • Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems.
  • Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing.
  • Power Plants and Power Systems.
  • Robotics.
  • Social Impact of Automation.
  • Transportation Systems.
  • Computer-aided design and human-integrated manufacturing.
  • Information systems.
  • Energy saving and resource recycling.
  • Disaster prevention systems, security systems.
  • Bio-medical systems and support for disabilities.
  • Health care, surgery, and rehabilitation.
  • Game and entertainment (arts, music).
  • Computer-supported collaborative work.
  • Management information systems, office systems, home systems.
  • Enterprise systems.