Welcome to the HuFEE Site

Engineering is not often thought of as a social or business activity. But in fact social and business needs and pressures shape what engineers do as much as engineering and technology shape the nature of society.

In this context the Human Factors and Enterprise Engineering Group (HuFEE) within Meraka was established.  HuFEE focuses on the issues affecting the development of socio-technical systems, both within enterprises and for the individual. 

Our research is aimed at a knowledge-based society, focusing on the human, business and software elements of enterprise engineering, with a strong multi-cultural and multicontext focus to extend the use and usability of ICT systems in a variety of ways that will serve the people and needs of South Africa and beyond.

We are a new, but dynamic research group, currently existing of only 4 full-time members, but a large pool of associated researchers and part-time students. Our Research Group Leader, Paula Kotze, was appointed in June 2008 to establish the group. Our first Principal Researcher, Alta van der Merwe, was appointed in January 2009, our first PhD studentship candidate, Mariana Carroll, in February 2009 and our first masters studentship candidate, Funmi Adebesin, in March 2009.

Please visit our pages to learn more about the HuFEE group, the research we conduct, related projects, events and other interesting links and collaborations. 

For more information on HuFEE, please contact: Prof Paula Kotze (paula dot kotze at meraka dot org dot za).