Design for the cyber-physical system of the new industry. New design scenarios for humans between physical and digital dimensions

The adaptation to a technological development that centers on the progressive encounter between digital and physical reality is one of the current challenges of design, mainly in those contexts where such progress is closely linked to environments that take little account of human presence, such as the contemporary industrial revolution, which, while committed to human-centric evolution with the concept of Industry 5.0, also generates automation mechanisms far from its understanding. This is the case of cyber-physical systems (CPS), a keyword in a research that aims to explore new criteria for studying human-automation interaction. The term, juxtaposes the word "cyber" (belonging to computer components) and "physical" (related to the real, tangible world). It is in the meeting of the two terms that it is intended to formulate a design methodology that bridges the gap between human and automation, analyzing the state of the art related to the operator's experience in such contexts and exploring topics such as Human Machine Interface and involved tools (from Extended Reality to wearable devices). Thus, a new research scenario opens up where we explore how design can look out to new and purely engineering environments, expanding the concept of cyber-physical not only to sentient and intelligent machines, but to an adaptive dimension between humans and the system where the symbiosis between them (digital and physical) leads to the definition of a human-centered manufacturing naturally favorable to mental and physical human presence.