25 YEARS OF HUMAN–MACHINE SYSTEMS IN IFAC

The human-machine systems field has been represented by IFAC with its own symposium series since 25 years ago. The first conference was held in 1982 at Baden-Baden, Germany. The symposium series is an important part of the IFAC Masterplan with regular symposium events every three years. The multidisciplinary field of human-machine systems science and engineering is well-established and influential in many areas. It has always strongly been linked to automatic control, human-computer interaction, systems engineering, cognitive ergonomics, social impact of automation, and operations research, as well as to many application domains. This plenary paper gives a short historical and methodological overview and, then, presents information about all symposium events of the human-machine systems series. Thereby, organizational information and lists of all plenary papers of all events are reported. The main scientific achievements of the events are highlighted. Finally, the future of the human-machine systems field is briefly discussed.