Complex HumanMachine Sociotechnical Systems

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• Complex Human-Machine (Socio-technical) Systems
• Yingzi Lin, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Intelligent Human-Machine Systems Lab
• Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• College of Engineering
• Northeastern University
• Professional Appointments
• Chair, Virtual Environments Technical Group,
  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Committee Member, Transportation Research Board
  (TRB)
• - Committee on Vehicle User Characteristics
  (AND10)
• - Committee on Simulation and Measurement of
  Vehicle and Operator Performance (AND30)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems,
  Man and Cybernetics Part A
• Members SAE, IEEE, HFES, ASME

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• Human Machine Interface

If Technology does not work for people, it does
not work
Systems
Machine
Human
Interaction
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Complex Human-Machine (Socio-technical) Systems

• Fact gt60 undesirable events (employee injury,
  damaged product or equipment) in manufacturing
  operations are due to human error

• Goal to create functional, ergonomic, safe and
  comfortable work environments using scientific
  methodology