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HFES Annual Meeting

HFBlog at HFES 2009 in San Antonio

by Richard Pak
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We were at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual conference in San Antonio.  This post is merely here to collect our six-part posts on various talks.  These only scratch the surface of what was presented.

Part 1:  The Mechanical Bull
Part 2:  Eliciting knowledge structures
Part 3:  Health, Internet, and ROBOTS!
Part 4:  Hearing and understanding
Part 5:  Rich gets lost (Automation/Trust)
Part 6:  More [...]

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HFES Conference Part 6: Health & Human Factors

by Richard Pak

The medical domain is an area where human factors research is very active. Here are some highlights from the conference.
Health Records
The following two presentations/proceedings papers examined Personal Health Records (user-maintained medical records):
Improving the user interface and adoption of online personal health records. (2009).  Peters, K. A., Green, T. F., & Shumacher, R. M.
This paper was a usability evaluation of [...]

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HFES Conference Part 5: Automation & Trust & Google Maps

by Richard Pak

During the conference I had a very personal experience with the effects of automation reliability on trust and subsequent behaviors.  First, a bit of background.  There is a large body of research examining how humans interact with automated systems (Global positioning systems, for example).  Human-automation interaction is quite complex; being affected by many factors.
Julian Sanchez (of MITRE) presented a poster [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 4 – Hearing and Understanding

by Anne McLaughlin

The paper described in this post was part of the Aging Technical Group sessions at HFES.
Hearing Levels Affect Higher-Order Cognitive Performance – Carryl L. Baldwin, George Mason University
Perhaps I was excited by this talk because I could see how the information could be used in the book Rich and I are working on. This presentation was a fascinating exploration of [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 3 – Health/Internet…and ROBOTS!

by Richard Pak
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One of my major interests at the moment is in the use of technological tools (primarily the Web) in the management of health.  So it was with great pleasure that there was so much research on this topic (I will mention more in future posts).
The first was presented in the Aging session (where Anne was program chair).  Jessie [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 2 – Eliciting Knowledge Structures

by Anne McLaughlin

I‘d like to highlight some of the talks I enjoyed last week and point our readers to their research.
First up, we have:
The Influence of Rating Method on Knowledge Structures.
Chad C. Tossell, Rice U.; Brent A. Smith, U.S. Air Force Academy; Roger W. Schvaneveldt, Arizona State U., Polytechnic
This talk was a great introduction to understanding how we organize information [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 1

by Richard Pak

Anne and I just got back from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society conference held in San Antonio.  We plan on posting some snippets of posters/talks that we found interesting in an upcoming post.  But in the mean time, here is a panorama of the view from our hotel.

Being in San Antonio, TX, we also visited a Cowboy bar complete [...]

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Live… from New York, it’s HFES!

by Anne McLaughlin

Richard and I are currently attending the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. I thought I’d report on some of the interesting work we saw this week.
First, a shameless plug for research conducted at my own university. David Sharek and Mike Wogalter presented data on how clueless and careless the “wired” generation can be when it [...]

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