Human Computer Interaction (HCI) happens right here, right in this moment. Reading these words, you interact with your computer.

The more complex and powerful systems become today, the more challenging it is to create a user-interface that matches this complexity while also meeting the goal of providing an interface, which is easy to use, learn and control by the user. This is fundamental, because wrong or correct interactions decide on millions of Euros of loss or profit in industry and research.

Besides the wide field of Human Computer Interaction VISE focuses also Software Engineering, which was born with F.L. Bauer's famous words*: „The whole trouble comes from the fact that there is so much tinkering with software. It is not made in a clean fabrication process which it should be. – What we need is software engineering." Since then, Software Engineering has become a powerful discipline growing with, but also surviving many paradigms. Particularly as software became the basis of everyday's work and life, Software Engineering matured and is now able to provide a collection of methods for many purposes starting from requirements and ending with lifecycle termination, while industry and production specific approaches are only in their fledgling stages. To close this gap will be one of the main aims of VISE.

Both disciplines Software Engineering and Human-Machine-Interaction have overcome their basic gaps and grown to mature fields of research and application in the European industry and research. But while Software Engineering was strongly linked with Engineering and Computer Science, HCI developed also from the psychological and ergonomic field, which made integration a challenge.

Today, VISE stands for this integration of Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering targeting for user-friendly production and industrial applications by collaboration of experts from both disciplines.

Help us make this integration come true for the European Industry. – Join us!

Some examples of our topics, depending on current development and strengths of our partner organisations:

• Industrial Software Engineering
• Model-Based Software Development
• Model-Based Software Systems
• Model-based Production
• Object-Oriented Processes (Production 2.0)
• Software for Rapid Reconfiguration
• HCI in Production Systems
• Engineering of Interactive Production Systems
• Ambient Interaction
• Interactive Processes
• Design of Complex Interfaces
• Usability Engineering

*) F.L. Bauer: Software Engineering – wie es begann 1993, S. 259