Table of Contents
- HFES Accreditation Survey
- HFES Committee Spotlight
- Leadership Opportunities for the Sustainability Technical Group
- 2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care
- Register Today: HFES Regional Meetings
- Update Your Profile Persona
- FPE 2025-2026 Impact Grants
- Submit a Nomination for HFES Awards
- HFE WOMAN Opens Call for Award Nominations
- Upcoming Webinar
- We Want to Hear From You About #ASPIRE25
- Call for Papers
- Upcoming Meetings and Activities
- Community Updates
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HFES Accreditation Survey | |
The HFES Accreditation Task Force (Nancy Cooke, Ann Bisantz, Erin Chiou and Kim Vu) was established in fall 2024 by HFES President Camille Peres to review the existing HFES accreditation program. The task force is assessing:
- Whether it meets the needs of relevant stakeholders
- Whether it is sufficiently well known among stakeholders
- How it compares to accreditation by similar societies
- Whether there are opportunities for modernization and efficiency
We would appreciate it if you took 10–15 minutes to complete our accreditation survey to support the task force’s efforts and help HFES better serve its members.
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Learn about our organizational structure! HFES is organized into five Divisions with each Division aggregating committees, subcommittees and liaisons with related organizations.
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Scientific Publications Committee
The Scientific Publications Committee consists of three standing members in addition to the chairperson, as well as ex-officio members consisting of the editors of regular periodicals published by HFES. The committee supports the HFES publications by activities such as monitoring the performance of the publications as well as the service provided by our publisher, developing strategic plans and publication policies, reviewing proposals for new publications, appointing new editors and discussing emerging trends in the field (e.g., generative AI). Here are some upcoming special issues and volumes:
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Users’ Guides to Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods
(Volume 7)
- Medical Product Development: Meeting FDA’s Human Factors Expectations by Michael Wiklund
Ergonomics in Design
- Trust in Artificial Intelligence
- Ergonomics in Latin American Countries
- Ergonomics in the Indian Subcontinent
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Leadership Opportunities for the Sustainability Technical Group | |
Are you a student, new grad or early-career professional looking to get more involved in HFES? The Sustainability Technical Group is seeking passionate individuals to join our leadership team and drive meaningful conversations about the future of human factors and ergonomics.
Open positions include:
- Communication director
- Website lead
- Social media lead
- Newsletter lead
This is your chance to gain leadership experience, expand your network and contribute to the growing impact of sustainability within HFES. For any questions, contact hfessustainability@gmail.com.
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2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care | |
Join us in Toronto, from March 30-April 2, 2025, for the 2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care. This event will bring together health care professionals, researchers and industry leaders to explore innovative HF/E solutions for improving patient safety and health care outcomes.
You can enhance your experience by adding workshops or attending the Healthcare Robotics Summit, where you’ll get an in-depth look at the latest advancements in the field. You may register for the Healthcare Robotics Summit without registering for the full Symposium.
The Westin hotel is sold out. We've added a limited supply of rooms at the Delta Hotels Toronto. See the hotel and travel page for more details.
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Register Today: HFES Regional Meetings | |
On Friday, April 11, HFES is launching an exciting new initiative: Regional Meetings. These concurrent, one-day, in-person gatherings are designed to bring HF/E professionals together for impactful programming and networking opportunities closer to home. These meetings will take place in key regions across the U.S., allowing for greater accessibility to the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, typically found only at the HFES Annual Meeting.
Western Region — Palo Alto, CA
Southern Region — Houston, TX
Midwest Region — West Lafayette, IN
Southeast Region — Atlanta, GA
Northeast Region — Philadelphia, PA
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Update Your Profile Persona | |
Help us tailor your HFES experience by updating your profile with a persona that best represents you. By doing so, you'll receive the most relevant industry updates, event announcements and educational resources—delivered straight to your inbox. Take a minute to update your profile and ensure you never miss the information that matters most to you.
Instructions to update your profile:
- Login to your HFES account.
- Click the "persona" tab.
- Choose the description that best first you.
- Click save.
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FPE 2025-2026 Impact Grants | |
The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics (FPE) is announcing the availability of the FPE Impact Grants that aim to support small projects in the quest to develop professional ergonomics around the world. The funding preference will be given, but not limited to, applicants from developing countries (as defined by the United Nations) or proposals that help develop or grow professional ergonomics in developing countries.
The deadline for submission is Wednesday, April 30.
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Submit a Nomination for HFES Awards | |
HFES full members and fellows are invited to submit nominations for society awards to be presented at ASPIRE—the 69th HFES International Annual Meeting convening October 13-17 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago.
Award nominations are invited for individuals whose contributions merit special recognition. The awards for which nominees are sought are:
- Hal W. Hendrick Distinguished International Colleague Award
- Paul M. Fitts Education Award
- A.R. Lauer Safety Award
- Alexander C. Williams, Jr., Design Award
- Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award
- HFES Inclusion Award
- Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award
- William C. Howell Young Investigator Award
- Bentzi Karsh Early-Career Service Award
Some awards are available to nonmembers; however, only members of HFES may submit nominations.
The nominations submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, May 2.
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HFE WOMAN Opens Call for Award Nominations | |
Human Factors and Ergonomics Women’s Organization for Mentorship and Networking (HFE WOMAN) would like to announce the nomination period is now open for their 2025 awards. These awards will be presented at the annual HFE WOMAN luncheon.
HFES Full Members, Fellows and Emeritus Fellows in good standing are encouraged to nominate candidates. Candidates need not be members of HFES. Candidates for the award may self-nominate or ask colleagues to submit nominations on their behalf.
All materials should be sent as a single PDF file by Friday, May 30.
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HFES Training Technical Group: Early Career Webinar: Innovations and Trends in Training Research
Friday, April 4 at 12:00 p.m. ET
Join us for a webinar featuring Virginia Tech researchers Mahdis Tajdari and Sakshi Taori from the industrial and systems engineering department. Mahdis will present "Enhancing Peri-personal Navigation: A Haptic Feedback Design Approach for Vertical and Horizontal Target Search," while Sakshi will discuss "Evaluating Cognitive Workload in Collaborative Manufacturing Scenarios: Human-Human and Teleoperator-Robot-Human." This session offers valuable insights into emerging research in HF/E.
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If you’re interested in organizing a webinar for HFES, complete the webinar request form. Once you’ve completed the form, HFES staff will send you a calendar invitation within 48 hours.
If you have any questions or concerns about webinars, please contact us at education@hfes.org.
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We Want to Hear From You About #ASPIRE25 | |
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HFES is committed to gathering input, receiving feedback and constructively engaging with everyone who contributes to organizing an outstanding ASPIRE—the 69th HFES International Annual Meeting. Your support and participation are greatly appreciated.
ASPIRE Office Hours
Join us each Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET for ASPIRE Office Hours and help us organize an outstanding HFES International Annual Meeting.
Technical Program Committee Monthly Meetings
Technical Program Chairs are encouraged to join us each month for in-depth discussions of the submission and review phases along with other important topics. These meetings are held from 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET on the first Wednesday of each month.
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NEW: Special Issue of Healthcare Human Factors
HFES is seeking papers of user-centered design processes and/or clinical trials addressing Human Factors considerations with biometric data for a special issue in Healthcare Human Factors. Novel interventions and programs have emerged from research teams interested in helping individual patients soundly interpret the data and apply the information to make decisions about their health and wellness goals in a meaningful way. This special issue plans to publish high-quality research or quality improvement studies that address similar interventions.
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.
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Special Section of Human Factors on Studying Vigilance: Methodological Issues in Sustained Attention Research
The Human Factors journal invites submissions for a special section on methodological challenges in vigilance research. This section explores methodological advances in measuring and applying vigilance research to real-world settings. Topics include theoretical and practical challenges, innovative laboratory and field methods and diverse approaches such as behavioral, neuroergonomic and computational techniques.
Please contact Jason McCarley for more information or questions.
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.
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Upcoming Meetings and Activities
Attention chapters, technical groups, affinity groups and beyond: HFES is pleased to post information concerning upcoming meetings, webinars or other events you wish to raise awareness about on our events listing page. We also will post meetings of allied societies provided they do not occur close to any HFES-organized activity.
Let us know about your meetings and other events. Email us at info@hfes.org.
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Community Updates
HFES wants to promote the important achievements of our members in the biweekly Bulletin. Appropriate topics include research milestones or other significant achievements, professional accolades, awards or recognitions, promotions or new positions and similar professionally oriented topics.
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Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Tel.: +1 (202) 367-1114, Monday-Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ET | Fax: +1 (202) 367-2114 | E: info@hfes.org
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