HFES Annual Meeting

Winner of HFES Morning Madness

October 1, 2011

Congratualations to Stephanie Whetsel (of Clemson University) for winning the straw poll for morning madness. Her talk, entitled, “Pedestrians’ Estimates of Their Own Visibi- lity at Night Are Not Reduced When Head- lights Are Severely Weakened” made entertaining use of video clips and was an audience favorite according to the poll. A big thanks to everyone who participated with hilarious [...]

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HFES Madness 2011

July 21, 2011

Will you be at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Annual Meeting in September?  If so, and you are presenting, consider doing a 25-second madness presentation.  The theme of “madness” is very appropriate for the conference locale:  Las Vegas! This year the madness presentations will be right before the opening plenary so you’ll have a huge audience. The purpose of madness [...]

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The Human Factors Prize

March 4, 2011

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is announcing the Human Factors Prize, a $10,000 prize recognizing excellent human factors research.  The winner will be presented at the annual meeting in Las Vegas this fall. The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is proud to announce the Human Factors Prize, established in 2010 by Editor-in-Chief William S. Marras. The prize, which will be [...]

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Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Ron Shapiro

January 28, 2011
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This post is from our series of human factors career profiles. Check them all out if you’re curious about what kinds of careers you can have in this field! Dr. Ron Shapiro received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He has had a long career in human factors, including being a visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University, consulting for three years [...]

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Afford-door-ances

October 4, 2010
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The picture above was taken from the Starbucks near the convention hotel for HFES 2010. Rich and I were walking in there at 6:30 a.m. when we saw a man exiting the doors, shaking them violently, and uttering curse words. We had to laugh when we saw what made him so angry – a push bar on the inside of [...]

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Keep up with the madness

September 30, 2010

HFES madness continues at the annual meeting in San Francisco. Visit the site to see the pictures.

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HFES Madness–There’s still time!

September 20, 2010

The annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting is next week in San Francisco.  If you’re attending as a presenter (of a lecture, a poster, or a symposium), consider participating in the HFES Madness Sessions!  These new sessions (organized by Anne, Kelly Caine, and me) are short-burst advertisements for your talk.  We’re borrowing this idea from our friends at SIGCHI. [...]

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Human Factors and Ergonomics Madness

August 2, 2010

Are you going to the annual Human Factors and Ergonomics conference this fall?  If you are conference presenter or just browsing, make sure to stop by the Madness sessions.  The purpose is to get a fun 25-second preview of the talks happening that day.  It’s early in the morning but hopefully well worth it. We’ll host a concurrent website and [...]

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“Sully” Sullenberger to Speak at the HFES 2010 Conference

March 17, 2010
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I received word today that Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger will give the keynote address at the 2010 Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference in San Francisco this October. Not only am I excited to hear him speak, I am excited because he is the perfect choice for a Human Factors audience: he has spoken publicly on interface and instruction issues in [...]

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HFBlog at HFES 2009 in San Antonio

December 2, 2009
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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 [...]

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HFES Conference Part 6: Health & Human Factors

November 10, 2009

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 [...]

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HFES Conference Part 5: Automation & Trust & Google Maps

November 4, 2009

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 [...]

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

November 3, 2009

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 [...]

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

October 29, 2009
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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 Chin [...]

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

October 27, 2009

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 [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 1

October 24, 2009

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 [...]

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