Table of Contents
- Finding Support Through HFES Connect
- Call for Submissions Deadline Extended: ASPIRE—The 69th HFES International Annual Meeting Accepting Nominations for HFES Fellows
- 2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care
- Register Today: HFES Regional Meetings
- HFES Featured Committees of the Month
- Submit a Nomination for HFES Awards
- Accepting Nominations for HFES Fellows
- Call for Nominations—IEA Fellow Award
- Update Your Profile Persona
- Seven HCI Grand Challenges Revisited: Five-Year Progress
- Upcoming Webinar
- We Want to Hear From You About #ASPIRE25
- Journal Spotlight
- Call for Papers
- Upcoming Meetings and Activities
- Community Updates
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Finding Support Through HFES Connect | |
The past few weeks have brought uncertainty and challenges. Many are feeling uncertainty about their safety, jobs, research and continued education. At HFES, we see you, we value you and we want to share a resource that we hope can offer support—not only for individuals but also for the science and application of human factors and ergonomics, now and into the future.
HFES Connect is a space for those in HF/E and related fields to come together. Once inside, navigate to “Communities I Can Join” to find groups tailored to your interests and needs. Whether you’re looking for technical groups (e.g., Human-AI-Robot Teaming, Occupational Ergonomics) or affinity groups (e.g., Practitioners, HFE WOMAN, LGBTQ+, BIPOC), there’s a space for meaningful connection.
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Call for Submissions Deadline Extended: ASPIRE—The 69th HFES International Annual Meeting | |
The new deadline for the call for proposals for ASPIRE—The 69th HFES International Annual Meeting is February 18.
Taking place October 13-17, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, IL, ASPIRE provides an unparalleled opportunity to share your latest work and network with fellow professionals in the field of HF/E. With updated, user-friendly templates, now is the perfect time to contribute your research and showcase your expertise.
You can also become a reviewer – complete the reviewer interest form by February 14
Submissions close on Tuesday, February 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care | |
Join us in Toronto, on 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.
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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Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities
Position your brand at the Symposium to showcase your products and services to a global audience of industry leaders, researchers and professionals. Gain unmatched visibility among the experts shaping the future of the field.
Become a sponsor or exhibitor today.
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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. | |
HFES Featured Committees of the Month | |
Learn about our organizational structure! HFES is organized into five Divisions with each Division aggregating committees, subcommittees and liaisons with related organizations.
We're excited to feature two committees of the month below.
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Practitioner Committee
Cindy Miller and Melissa Afterman have done an excellent job leading the Practitioners Committee within the Internal Affairs Division. Their constant commitment to reaching out to our practitioner members through surveys and town halls demonstrates their genuine desire to understand the unique preferences and needs of our practitioner community.
Through this feedback, they are dedicated to creating meaningful opportunities for networking and collaboration, not only within the practitioner community but also connecting them to academia. By fostering engagement through the annual meeting and webinars, they have opened up spaces for practitioners to connect and share their experiences. Their efforts promote heartfelt discussions on how to effectively apply HF/E research in practice, ensuring that practical knowledge and challenges with HF/E tools and methods are recognized and improved upon.
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US TAG to TC159
The US Technical Advisory Group or TAG to ISO Technical Committee (TC) 159 on ergonomics consists of the US TAG chairs to the various subcommittees of TC 159 which includes general ergonomics principles (SC1), anthropometry and biomechanics (SC3), ergonomics of human-system interaction (SC4) and ergonomics of the physical environment (SC5).
The TAG chairs are, respectively, Peregrin Spielholz, Neal Wiggermann, Ram Maikala and Amrita Maguire who all do an outstanding and dedicated job of coordinating the US experts on the different working groups, organizing US responses on standards ballots and, as part of the TC159 TAG, handling the business of administration of ISO policies and projects and also participating on the Technical Standards Committee. Future updates will exam the work of each of the individual SCs.
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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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Accepting Nominations for HFES Fellows | |
Members of HFES are invited to submit applications for the HFES Fellow designation. A distinction bestowed by peers, election to a fellow recognizes great achievement, consistently superior professional performance, exceptional contributions, personal dedication to HFES and other meritorious achievements by members.
Applicants may be any full member in good standing for at least the five preceding years. A person may submit an application for fellow status on behalf of another.
Applications are due by Friday, February 28, 2025.
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Call for Nominations—IEA Fellow Award | |
Each year, federated societies of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) are invited to forward names of candidates to be considered for IEA Fellowship.
HFES is accepting applications for IEA Fellow from its members through Friday, March 21.
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Update Your Profile Persona | |
Update your profile by designating a “persona” to tell us more about you. This update will help HFES provide you with the most relevant and timely information. This personalized approach means you'll be the first to hear about industry updates, events and educational resources that matter 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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Seven HCI Grand Challenges Revisited: Five-Year Progress | |
We are delighted to share the open-access publication of a new paper co-authored by members of HFES: Seven HCI Grand Challenges Revisited: Five-Year Progress
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
Published: February 4, 2025
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2025.2450411
This paper revisits the seven grand challenges in human-computer interaction (HCI), providing insights into the progress made over the past five years and outlining future directions in the field.
Contributors: Constantine Stephanidis, Gavriel Salvendy, Margherita Antona, Vincent G. Duffy, Qin Gao, Waldemar Karwowski, Shin'ichi Konomi, Fiona Nah, Stavroula Ntoa, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau, et al.
We invite you to explore this work and join the discussion on the evolving landscape of HCI!
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IEA Informal Work Technical Committee Webinar: Informal Work in Europe: Human Factors Perspectives and Challenges
Tuesday, February 25 at 10:00 a.m. ET
The IEA Informal Work Technical Committee conducts a free webinar series to share information about the nature of informal work, its relationship and implications for HF/E and research occurring at the intersection of informality and HF/E around the world. Prior webinar recordings can be found here.
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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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Special Issue of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
The Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making invites submissions for a special issue addressing the ethical and performance challenges associated with AI-enabled systems across all domains, with special emphasis on high-consequence environments such as health care, aviation, military operations, driving and others.
This issue seeks to explore how AI technologies can be designed and implemented in ways that allow for seamless integration with human operators, while incorporating ethical principles such as lawfulness, traceability, transparency, reliability and bias mitigation.
The deadline for submissions is March 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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