The 21 chapters in this volume are presentations from the Second Symposium on Human Factors in Management Information Systems (MIS). The goal is to provide IS professionals and academics with a human factors orientation and practical guidelines relating to human factors issues. It is also intended as a textbook for graduate level students. The general introduction serves as a position treatise for the study of human factors in IS. The disciplines of computer science, information systems, human factors engineering, and human computer interaction are explored as contributing fields to human factors in IS.
