Work With Computing Systems - WWCS

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Chair

Tomas Berns
PhD, Eur. Erg.
Ergolab
Artillerigatan 74
SE-115 30 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: tomas.berns@ergolab.se

Co-Chair

Christopher Schlick
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics
RWTH Aachen University
Bergrdriesch 27
D-52056 Aachen, Germany
Email: c.schlick@iaw.rwth-aachen.de

Allan Toomingas
PhD;MD Reg.Psychologist
Institutet för Miljömedicin IMM, Enh. för Arbetsmedicin
Norrbacka
SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 524 800 26
Mob: +46 (0)8 730 58 48 02
Fax: +46 (0)8 33 43 33
Email: allan.toomingas@ki.se

Objectives

To advance knowledge about how to design, develop and evaluate effective and health-promoting computing systems for supporting human work in commercial and non-profit organizations.
To organize and support collaborative events for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experiences on work with computing systems, focusing on:

Users' health, well-being and productivity with special reference to age and gender aspects
Usability of workplace computing systems and information and communication technology at work
Interaction between theory and practice

Structure

The Technical Committee is a peer group of researchers and practitioners without a hierarchical substructure.

Action Plan

Activities	Description	Responsible	Milestone/Timeline	Deliverable/Timeline
Organize 7 sessions with 5 papers each for the IEA World Congress in Beijing 2009	Planning and review of session proposals	Chair and Co-chair	According to congress specs	According to congress specs
Compile a selection of best papers contributed to sessions of IEA World Congress 2009 and edit a special issue of BIT journal	Planning	Chair, Co-chair, and BIT editor in chief Ahmet Cakir	Selected papers ready to print at Taylor & Francis, 2010	BIT special issue in 2010

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