Affiliations: Hamburg and Schwalmstadt, Univ.-Professor of Systems
Engineering and Human-Machine Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Kassel, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Human-Machine-Systems Science and Engineering is viewed as a
multidisciplinary discipline. After a personal dedication of this essay to
Andrew P. Sage, the discipline is briefly introduced with applications in all
areas across the whole society in which humans interact and collaborate with
technical artifacts. Different perspectives of the human-machine-systems
discipline are explained which are interrelated with each other. These are the
systems perspective, the human factors and ergonomics perspective, the
information and the knowledge perspective, the control perspective, the
cognition perspective, and the management perspective. The concluding remarks
describe the difference between the two disciplines of Human-Machine-Systems
Science and Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction and refer to the main
international conferences in both fields.
Keywords: Human-machine systems, systems engineering, human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, human information processing, knowledge-based systems, manual and supervisory control, cognitive science, systems management, human-centered design