Matching the work and workplace to the employees s capabilities to enhance their safety, health and comfort as well as effectiveness, productiveness and competiviness of their organisation. The research group of Systems Ergonomics has the objective to describe and interpret the work system's structure by the means of systemics. Focus lies on the flow and processing of information in complex work systems and on the related knowledge processes of the human operator. The Applied Vision Research group investigates about points of contact between the technical world and the visual system of man. Methods belonging to natural and social science as well as arts are used for this purpose aiming an optimisation of information flow.
System analysis is more than a step to inform the understanding expert about the situation.
Both parties, ergonomists and system s users have to reach a mutual understanding before any definition or solution of the problem can be fixed. The challenge is to find and establish therefore continous processes of work improvement, accepted by users and managed by their active participation. A good readability of characters on a visual display, for instance, requires minimal character size and sufficient character contrast. If colour is used to code information, we shall keep in mind that colour also has psychological meaning and that colour deficient people might perceive colour different than other observers. A second approach accounts for technical and economical feasability.