Special conference report: Men and computers — Sixth annual symposium on human factors in electronics

One of the major themes underlying the Human Factors Symposium in Boston this May was the crucial relationship between men and computers. In general, it was said, our computers are rapidly becoming so economical that now we are obliged to find ways of making better use of the people who use the computers. The problem of man — computer interaction, the man — machine interface, has come to the foreground.