Abstract: Important progress on human-computer cooperation (HCC) theory and application is attained, which attracts more extensive attentions from engineering practice and academic field. However, how to implement HCC in more maneuverable and pragmatic way is still an open and challenging issue. Based on the review of HCC, some key supporting techniques of HCC are surveyed from the point of view of engineering application, mainly including system and structure of HCC, Agent and computational intelligence, information perception and fusion, vulgarized metasynthesis (generalized integration). Furthermore, combining with HCC research on spacecraft layout, some dis-cussions on HCC are given out as follows: the reasons why remarkable fruits are not enough currently, some strategies and approaches for more practical HCC, encouraging to broadly put HCC into practice, and how to deepen theoretical research of HCC. The purpose is to discuss how to better exert the actual effect of HCC in engineering practice under the present science and technology circumstances.

Key words: Agent, Human-computer cooperation, Information fusion, Metasynthesis, Supporting techniques, System structure Computational intelligence