Cultural Aspects of Automation

This volume records the proceedings of a workshop where experts from such different research disciplines as control engineering, systems engineering, sociology, art, philosophy and politics, met in Krems, Austria, to discuss the interplay between recent developments in automation and the cultural and social framework, with special emphasis on various approaches in the East and the West. Main topics of these intensive discussions were technology design, automation software and culture, social conditions, education, the computer and art, the design of man-machine systems and CIM and culture, as well as appropriate methods for interdisciplinary research.