Publication notes

This book comes as a reminder that HCI does not only occur when users interact with a word-processor to produce a document, or use a spreadsheet to produce a financial model, but also when they control and manage complex dynamic systems (complex dynamic systems in this case include such things as chemical plants or nuclear power stations). This book consists of a collection of papers (each paper making up a chapter, there are 12 chapters in the book) brought together to illustrate the problems involved in designing computer interfaces to manage complex dynamic systems. An interesting thing to point out about these papers is that all but one of them were written by Europeans. The book in itself is a very good example of international collaboration, with authors from two different continents and eight different countries. This book also gives us a look into the kind of research that is going on in Europe in terms of Human-Computer Interaction and complex dynamic systems.