The most significant articles from each of the fields represented
at the conference on Work with Display Units 1992 are presented in
this volume. Such topics are:
- The newest occupational health research results, partially backed
by extensive epidemiological studies, concerning radiation, eye
fatigue, stressors and diseases of the musculoskeletal apparatus
and the medical surveillance of workers with display units.
- Ergonomic studies pertaining to design improvements.
- Support of the human operator by intelligent user surfaces and
interfaces, demonstrated by experimental results.
- The latest developments in input devices including virtual
reality as well as multi-media, multi-screen and multi-language
human computer interaction.
- Concepts of group work and organizational stress in combination
with its psychophysical and psychophysiological evaluation,
especially the problem of stress-strain regulation, adaptation and
long-term effects on recovery and recreation.
- Discussion of hypertext and hypermedia as well as applications of
computer aided techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge
structuring and knowledge use for decisions and working processes
in different contexts.
- New organizational concepts such as Chaos Theory and new methods
of work design in industry such as Kansei Engineering.
- Discussion of the International Standardization and EC
regulations.