40-Year Development of Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering from Scientific Papers

There were totally 1749 scientific papers published in proceedings of conferences on Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering (MMESE) during 1993 to 2020 since the MMESE was founded in 1981 by guidance of Xuesen Qian with system engineering thought. The results were found by data analysis that 27.90%, 10.29%, 9.26%, 9.89%, 11.78%, 2.69%, 20.01% of the papers were in the subdomains of MMESE named as the Man Character, the Machine Character, the Environment Character, the Man-Machine Relationship, the Man-Environment Relationship, the Machine-Environment Relationship, the Overall Performance of Man-Machine-Environment System in addition to 7.66% under title of Theory and Application Research and 0.51% of Pandect. In the last decade, MMESE went much faster especially in 5.75% growth on the Machine Character, and trend was better and better for internationalization with efforts of main contributors such as the first authors of the papers, publishers, and MMESE committee of SESC.