Table of Contents:
- 66th International Annual Meeting Updates
- Accessibility and Inclusion at the Annual Meeting and ErgoX
- Upcoming Webinars
- 2023 mHealth Student Design Competition
- Call for Submissions
- Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human Factors (IF = 3.598)
- University of Southampton Student Wins International Award
- Register Today for the 8th ErgoX Symposium
- HFES Calendar of Events
- HFES Emerging Leaders Program
- NIST Seeks Comments on Risks in Design, Development, Use, and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Systems
- FPE Provides a Helping Hand to HF/E Professionals
- FPE Promotes Human Factors/Ergonomics Professionalism Worldwide through Impact Grants
- Senate Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Bills
- Gregory Bedny Wins 2022 FPE Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year
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66th International Annual Meeting Updates |
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This year's Annual Meeting will feature a series of plenary sessions Tuesday through Friday to inform and update you on a variety of perspectives across the discipline of human factors and ergonomics. Be sure to register and attend to hear these speakers and panelists. Learn more.
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New for 2022, HFES will be kicking off the International Annual Meeting with an Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony on Monday, October 10. This event will recognize award recipients from the HFES community for their achievements and outstanding work. There will be an opportunity to meet the award recipients, network with your peers, and more! Want to support this highly popular event? Sponsorship opportunities now available, click here for details!
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Sponsorship Opportunities and exhibit booths available! Interact with a broad representation of researchers, practitioners, students, and others interested in the advancement of technology, equipment, and systems and reach decision-makers who purchase your products and services. Click here for more details.
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The HFES Career Center returns October 11-14 in Atlanta. Click here to see which companies are participating.
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Workshops spots are filling up fast! Extend your learning by taking a deep dive into one or more workshops, led by subject matter experts from around the industry. Learn more.
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View Chair Emeritus Ron Boring's Message about the 66th International Annual Meeting! Watch video.
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Accessibility and Inclusion at the Annual Meeting and ErgoX
HFES is committed to creating environments that embrace diversity through the inclusion of individuals reflective of characteristics across age, gender identity and expression, race, sex, religious and spiritual beliefs, nationality, ethnicity, cultural identity, physical ability, cognitive ability, marital status, sexual orientation, body shape or size, socioeconomic status, and other facets of social, institutional, and identity diversity.
We proudly announce advances in this regard relative to our upcoming 66th Annual Meeting and ErgoX Symposium where we aim to create environments in which all attendees are welcome, valued, affirmed, and feel that they belong. We invite you to review the resources assembled to inform attendees and prospective attendees about the meeting venue accessibility, the accessibility features and options on-site at the meeting, and how to prepare slides and posters to guide you in making your important research available to a larger group of audience members, including audience members with a variety of access needs.
Visit the Accessibility page on the 66th Annual Meeting website to learn more.
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Upcoming Webinars
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm EDT
Speakers: Maurita Harris, M.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Marie A. Statler, Ph.D., Towson University; Jacklin Stonewall, M.S., Iowa State University; Enid Montague, Ph.D., University of Toronto.
The recruitment of a diverse and representative group of participants is essential to ensuring various perspectives are represented, both within research organizations and the private sector. During this 75-minute webinar, our panel of expert researchers will share the challenges and successes they’ve experienced regarding topics such as access and marketing to marginalized or hard-to-reach communities and compensation strategies.
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm EDT
Speakers: Bill Browning, Terrapin Bright Green; Prof. Andrew Thatcher, University of the Witwatersrand
This webinar will introduce biophilic design which emphasizes the value of using inspiration from how natural systems operate to produce sustainable designs which also support human health, wellbeing, and effectiveness. In this webinar, Bill will use examples from the built environment to demonstrate the value of biophilic design in supporting human health and wellbeing.
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm EDT
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Pieter, M.A, Desmet; Stan Caplan, Ph.D.
This webinar is brought to you by HFES's Product Design Technical Group. Emotion is a central quality of human existence, and most of our behavior, motivation, and thought is enriched with, and influenced by emotions. Ignoring the emotional side of product experience would be like denying that these products are designed, bought, and used by humans. In his webinar, Prof. Dr. Desmet presents his ideas on how we can impose some structure on the limitless number of possible emotion-eliciting situations associated with product design. He addresses why and how products elicit emotions, and to what extent designers can influence or ‘design for’ these emotions.
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2023 Health Care Symposium Updates |
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2023 mHealth Student Design Competition
Preparations are underway for the mHealth Student Design Competition at the 2023 Human Factors in Health Care Symposium! We are reaching out to seek reviewers, coaches, and judges for the various stages of the competition. If you’d be willing to serve as a reviewer, coach or judge, please indicate the same by clicking this link.
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Call for Submissions
The Program Committee for the HFES International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care is excited to launch the 2023 Call for Proposals. Focused on important human factors and ergonomics issues affecting the health care industry, the next HFES Health Care Symposium will take place March 26-29, 2023 in Orlando, FL. Submit your proposal today to showcase your latest work. We are currently seeking submissions for papers, lectures, and posters. Submitters are only required to submit a title, contributor list, summary, and learning objectives; no paper is required. If a submission is accepted, the authors will have the option to submit a paper for publication but this is not required. Please see the 2023 submission site for outlined details about the nature of your work and steps for contribution. The submission deadline is October 14.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human Factors (IF = 3.598)
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems
The global investment in renewable and sustainable energy systems is critical for addressing the climate crisis. The investment is scaling up new energy sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, etc.; building out smart grids to transmit energy flows that fluctuate throughout the day and incorporate large-scale energy storage systems; developing green manufacturing of steel and cement; transitioning to clean automobiles, busses, trucks, trains, and planes that use electricity or green hydrogen; expanding networked vehicle charging systems; incorporating smart building heating and air-conditioning systems and electrical appliances; etc. However, the rapid changes of these complex systems can be accompanied by failures that slow adoption. Human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) plays a critical role in the design for usability and reliability of such complex systems
The proposed special issue invites contributions that address HF/E in the design and adoption of renewable and sustainable energy systems and devices. Papers can approach the topic by proposing theoretical frameworks, conducting modeling or laboratory experiments, or presenting findings from field studies on renewable and sustainable energy topics.
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University of Southampton Student Wins 2022 Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award
Congratulations to Siobhan Merriman, a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton in the United Kingdom for winning the 2022 Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award. The award will be presented to Siobhan during the 2022 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Register for the 8th ErgoX Symposium
ErgoX showcases and applies the latest ergonomics science to workplace health, safety, wellness, and injury-prevention issues across a variety of domains and settings.
With the theme this year, “Designing Technology for People”, ErgoX will address how we can advance safe and effective user technology adoption. ErgoX will explore the latest in new technology and research and its applications in human factors and ergonomics. The 8th ErgoX Symposium features four concurrent tracks: Exoskeletons, Robotics, Cybersecurity, and our newest offering - Extended Reality. Meet with exhibitors and grow your professional network at ErgoX.
Join us October 14 & 15 - immediately following the 66th Annual Meeting of HFES at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta, GA, USA.
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HFES Calendar of Events
Attention Chapters, Technical Groups, Affinity Groups and beyond – HFES is pleased to post information concerning any upcoming meetings, webinars, or other events you wish to raise awareness about on our Calendar of Events page. We also will post meetings of allied societies provided they do not occur close to any HFES organized activity.
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HFES Emerging Leaders Program
The Executive Council announces the continuation of the Emerging Leaders program – an educational and mentoring opportunity where HFES members observe and participate in the Executive Council meeting at the annual meeting.
The next opportunity is during the HFES 66th International Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, USA. This program is part of an effort led by the HFES Leadership Development Committee to promote the professional development of potential leaders in HFES. This experience is intended to support individuals in their efforts to become leaders within their profession and, more specifically, to foster future leaders in HFES.
Selected attendees will have the opportunity to be involved in discussions during the Executive Council meeting, provide feedback, and be paired with a mentor throughout the meeting. Selected mentees will arrive at the annual meeting on Friday, October 7 to attend an orientation/discussion that evening followed by the Executive Council meeting on Saturday and Sunday (October 8 & 9). HFES covers the expenses for two nights' lodging and food and beverage on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Transportation expenses are the responsibility of the selected individual. Nominations are due no later than September 5.
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NIST Seeks Comments on Risks in Design, Development, Use, and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Systems
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking comments on two just-released publications to address risks in the design, development, use and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
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FPE Provides a Helping Hand to HF/E Professionals
The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics (FPE) continues to provide groundbreaking programming promoting Ergonomics Professionalism worldwide. One such recently initiated program is Special Needs Assistance.
Hardships can arise for HF/E practitioners, making it difficult for them to continue their work, as during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, a small amount of financial assistance may be sufficient to satisfy their needs. For example, FPE has provided funds to maintain annual dues for BCPE certificants who have financial need. This enables those practitioners to continue their work within the standards of certification. In the past, FPE has also provided solar chargers to University of Puerto Rico students following Hurricane Katrina, enabling them to continue their education. Tuition support for a foreign student at a US university enabled him to finish his final semester and become an HF/E practitioner in his home country. A new project under consideration is to assist worthy professionals, in one of many possible ways, either directly in Ukraine itself, if feasible, and/or Poland which has taken the major responsibility for refugee resettlement, following the recent Russian incursion.
FPE works closely with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE), allowing us to coordinate and collaborate on such projects of mutual interest and value. Such projects were made possible through contributions by HF/E professionals who graciously provided their time, expertise, and financial donations.
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FPE Promotes Human Factors/Ergonomics Professionalism Worldwide Through Impact Grants
The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics is pleased to announce another recent initiative for promoting Human Factors/Ergonomics Professionalism worldwide. Impact Grants are intended as seed funding for small (pilot) projects that could potentially lead to more extensive funding opportunities from other sources in the future.
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Senate Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Bills
On July 28, the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations released all 12 of its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 spending bills. The priorities and funding levels articulated in these draft bills reflect Democratic priorities and will set the Senate’s initial position for negotiations with the House, which released their FY 2023 spending bills earlier this year. However, a deal is unlikely to be reached before current funding for FY 2022 expires on September 30, and a Continuing Resolution is expected to extend current funding levels for all federal Agencies until closer to the end of this calendar year. Like the House, the Senate bills would provide increases in funding for Democratic priorities, including climate change and clean energy, healthcare, workforce development, and social justice; but in many cases, these amounts would be less than the substantial increases proposed in the FY 2023 President’s Budget Request. Highlights of the Senate bills and programs relevant to the human factors community, including links to more in-depth analysis are below.
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Gregory Bedny Wins 2022 FPE Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year |
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The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics (FPE) takes pride in awarding the 2022 Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year Award to Gregory Bedny posthumously. Gregory Z. Bedny, Ph.D., was a Ukranian-American psychologist. He was the founder of the influential Systemic-Structural Activity Theory (SSAT). Congratulations to Gregory Bedny! |
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HFES wants to promote the important achievements of our members in the bi-weekly Bulletin. Appropriate topics include research milestones or other significant achievements, professional accolades, awards or recognitions, promotions or new positions, and similar professionally-oriented topics. If you would like to share news with the HFES community, please fill out the form.
Additionally, if you are made aware of the passing of any members of HFES, please let us know. Contact HFES Executive Director Steven Kemp at skemp@hfes.org.
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