ICOCO 2010 - International Control-room design Conference 2010

25-26 October 2010

Eurosites Republique, 8 Bis rue de la Fontaine au roi, 75011 Paris

This international conference on control rooms is the first such scientific congress run by the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Keynote speakers are:

Robert S Simpson, Founder Director, Electrosonic Group. Robert is an authority on Audio Visual and Lighting Control topics. His books include "Effective Audio Visual", "Videowalls - The Book of the Big Electronic Image" and "Lighting Control - Technology and Applications".

Dr Toni Ivegard,PhD, Researcher, Writer, Director Technology & Service to People, Docent (Assoc.Prof), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
School of Technology & Health, Handen, Stockholm, author of "Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A perspective for the future".

The conference will cover the following topics:

  • New technology in control rooms
  • Physical design of control rooms
  • Control rooms of the future
  • Overview displays
  • The changing role of the operator
  • Control rooms and world concerns - global warming / energy distribution / societal security

It is supported by the following organisations:

  • CCD Design and Ergonomics
  • International Ergonomics Association
  • Centre for Registration of European Ergonomists
  • Federation of European Ergonomics Societies
  • Societe d'Ergonomie de Langue Francaise
  • Institute of Engineering and Technology

Info flyer: Please click here!

Please also see http://www.icoco2010.org

The Paris conference was a great success.

Submitted by admin on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 17:23.

Toni Ivergard
The Paris conference was a great success. As a first conference of this nature it had a highly relevant content. We had a very exciting workshop in the end of the conference. The need for more creativity in new design was raised. We did also discuss the use of simulators for other purposes than introduction training of new CR operators. They can also be used for training and development. However there is a need of very high level of quality of this type of simulators! The reliability and validity need to be very high. Some new and modern flight simulators fulfill these requirements. More workshops are needed in the future. It is easy to make a long list of new important areas to develop new features of CRs.
toni@ivergard.com

Keynotes from the Conference.