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.