A fairly widespread notion persists concerning office automation (OA) having a revolutionary impact on the work of managers. The new age will provide instant access to information, insightful consideration of numerous options, convincing graphics, and less time wasted in travel and administrative trivia. But how much of this ideal can be true? Given organizational and technological constraints,...

The facilities provided by an office automation system must be efficiently usable by a wide variety of different user group_, each of which has definable characteristics with respect to skills, which should be exploited by,and expectations, which should be satisfied by, the user-system interface. There are three basic dialog formats which may be "_,combined to implement this interaction: menu, ...

Aims: To design energy-saving control system of electrical system in office buildings; Methods: discusses the structure and function of electric control system of construction equipment, and points out the energy saving mode of the electrical automation control system of construction equipment. Finally, applies the above theory to the design of energy saving control system in X company’s office...

Although the value of user involvement in facilitating change is generally accepted, its application has proved to be quite difficult. Key obstacles to the effective implementation of user involvement emanate from a number of sources, prominent among them being those associated with the lack of competence of users both technically and psychologically to contribute positively to the systems deve...

To be highly useful, ooce automation systems require cus-tomization to individual users, work environments, and tasks. We consider the question of whether ooce automation systems can be developed that allow users who are not skilled programmers to easily \program", or customize, these tools themselves. In other words, can we deploy very general, non-customized programs that can be extended and ...

A methodology for computer-aided human factors analysis in office automation system (OAS) design and implementation process has been developed. It incorporates a fuzzy knowledge-based evaluation mechanism, which is employed to aggregate data measured in scales of different type. The methodology has a high degree of flexibility, which allows it to be adjusted to the individual client situation. ...