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UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 11/4/09
- Speaker: David Sharek
- Topic: Measuring Engagement
- HFES 2009 Annual Meeting in San Antonio
- Date: October 19 - 23
- Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 600 E. Market St., San Antonio, TX
- Congratulations to all of our students and faculty who presented their research!
- Modeling Human-Robot Interaction with Petri-Nets by Rosemarie Yagoda & Michael D. Coovert
- Bar Graphs and Small Screens:Mitigating Cognitive Load in Mobile Visualizations by Mary G. Luong & Anne Collins McLaughlin
- Feedback Specificity Requirements for Learning in Younger and Older Adults: The Role of Cognitive Resources and Task Demand by Christopher M. Kelley & Anne Collins McLaughlin
- The Role of Effortful Attention in Effective Spatial Training by Laura Whitlock & Anne Collins McLaughlin
- Habituation, Dishabituation, and Recovery Effects in Visual Warnings by Soyun Kim & Michael S. Wogalter
- HFES Chapter Meeting, 10/13/09
- Students who had research accepted for publication at the HFES Conference had the opportunity to practice presenting their research at this meeting. All student presenters were provided with an honorarium from the HFES Carolina Chapter towards travel expenses for the annual meeting.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 9/23/09
- Speakers:
- Meghan Hegarty - Application of Usability Analysis Techniques to the Design of Rehabilitation Equipment
- Yingjie Li - A Comparison of Haptic Devices for Computer-based Assessment of Motor-Control Disabilites
- Zhang Yu - The Effects of Aging and Cognitive Stress Disposition on Driver Situation Awareness and Performance Under Hazardous Conditions
- Topic: IEA Presentations
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting, 9/29/09
- The first meeting of the student chapter for for the Fall '09 semester.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 9/23/09
- Speaker: Laura Whitlock
- Topic: Training Spatial Ability
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 9/9/09
- Speaker: Dr. Robert Hubal, RTI
- Topic: Situated assessment: Getting the right measures and the measurement right
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 8/26/09
- Speaker: Dr. Anne McLaughlin
- Topic: Cognitive Training Theory
- HFES Chapter Picnic, 7-18-09
- HFES Chapter Event, 5-11-09
- Human Factors Needs in Farm Work: Ideas and Variables to Consider
- Speaker: Dr. Anne McLaughlin
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 4/15/09
- Speaker: Jennifer Cowley
- Topic: Psychometrics
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 4/8/09
- Speaker: David Sharek
- Topic: Using Mechanical Turk in Research
- HFES Carolina Chapter Event - Sharon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Tour, 4/3
- The HFES Carolina Chapter visited Sharon Harris nuclear power plant. They toured the control room simulator and viewed a basic nuclear program in the visitor center.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 4/1/09
- Speaker: Marie Panepinto
- Topic: Task-switching
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 3/25/09
- Speaker: Dr. Neil Ganey, Lenovo
- Topic: The Effect of Multi-task Workload on Thread Assessment
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 3/11/09
- Speaker: Mary Luong
- Topic: Mobile Learning Environments
- Carolina HFES Chapter Social, 2/26/09
- Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
- Location: Hibernian Irish Pub
- HFES members got together to enjoy some food, drinks, and networking.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 2/25/09
- Speaker: Dr. Sharon Joines
- Topic: Industrial Design
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 2/11/09
- Speaker: Dr. Mark Wilson
- Topic: Meta-analysis Technique
- HFES Carolina Chapter Meeting
with Guest Speaker Dr. Richard Pak, 1/13
- Location: HumanCentric
- Guest Speaker: Dr. Richard Pak of Clemson University
- Dr. Pak is head of the Cognition, Aging, and Technology Lab (catlab) at Clemson University. Dr. Pak is the 2006 winner of the HFES Aging Technical Group Arnold Small Award for Aging and visual attention: The effect of perceptual load on dual-task performance and An age-related comparison of a touch screen and a novel input device.
- For more information about HFES Carolina, please visit our website http://www.hfescarolina.com/.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 1/14/09
- Speaker: Dr. Richard Pak of Clemson University
- Topic: Improving Information Search for Younger and Older Adults
- GrASP Happy Hour, 1/15/09
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 12-3-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Speaker: Dr. Shari Lane
- Topic: Does what we know really matter: Validating measures of expertise
- HFES Chapter Meeting - Research Seminar, 11-21-08
- Professor Celestine Ntuen of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at NC A&T gave a presentation on his recent research on “Visualization as an Enabler of Human Actions.”
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 11-19-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Speaker: Jennifer Cowley
- Topic: Visual attention in owners manuals or Psychometrics
- World Usability Day, 11-13-08
- Location: Glaxo-Smith Kline
- Speakers:
- Graham James, Professional Transportation Planner
- Beth Mcgough, Human Factors Engineer, JCI, Michigan
- TriUPA will celebrated World Usability Day this year on Nov 13th at GSK. They created a program that centered around UPA's theme of transportation. There were two speakers who have worked in the transportation field that talked about the usablity challenges in products and services in that area. There were also presentations by participants in the Design Challenge who had several weeks to work on their design problem.
- Social Event - Biweekly Lunch
- Date: Wednesdays when there isn't a Brown Bag Lecture
- Time: 12 - 1 pm
- Location: Poe 738-H
- As one of our social events we have decided to hold biweekly lunches. They will be held Wednesdays on the weeks when there is no HFES brownbag, from 12 - 1 pm, starting on Sept. 3rd. We will meet at Poe 738-H and determine where to go from there.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 11-5-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Speaker: David Sharek
- Topic: Video game design patterns: Curiosity and flow in e-learning contexts
- Tour of The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina, 10-30-08
- Location: The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina (Directions)
- The Carolina HFES Chapter hosted its October monthly meeting at The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina. The Center's mission is to make workplaces safer, more productive, and more competitive by providing methods to reduce occupational injury and illness. The Center provides occupational ergonomics consulting, training programs, and research for corporations. The Center currently employees six staff ergonomists working in the various business areas. The Center has provided training and consulting services to numerous businesses and industries throughout the United States. The event will include a visit to the Center facilities and presentations by the staff on various aspects of Center operations.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 10-22-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Topic: 5-minute Research Madness! Overview of labs and research in HFE at NCSU
- Student Chapter Event - Presentation by Dr. Shapiro, 10-13-08
- Location: Withers Hall 105
- Speaker: Dr. Ron G. Shapiro of IBM career services
- Topic: What is it like working in industry?
- Graduate Students face a difficult decision - Should they pursue a career in academics or one in industry? Many students have extensive experience in academic settings, but very limited experience with industry. Thus, this presentation wass designed to provide an introduction to working in industry.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 10-8-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Speaker: Karl Kaufmann
- Topic: Depth perception & Equidistance Tendency
- Student Chapter Meeting - Tour of Usability Labs at HumanCentric, 10-1-08
- Location: HumanCentric in Cary (Directions)
- HumanCentric is an integrated product design firm headquartered in Cary, NC. This tour showed students usability labs at HumanCentric.
- 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Date: September 22-26, 2008
- Location: New York City
- HFES Chapter Meeting - Student Research Presentations, 9-15-08
- Location: Riddick Labs, Room 451
- In preparation for the HFES Conference, the Carolina Chapter of HFES hosted a student research symposium to preview annual meeting content. The chapter invited all regional student chapter members who are scheduled for lecture or poster presentations at the national conference to give preview presentations of their work at this local symposium. Free pizza and soda was provided for those who attended.
- All student presenters were given an honorarium from the HFES Carolina Chapter towards travel expenses for the annual meeting. The presenters were:
- Chris Kelley
- Sang-Hwan Kim
- Patrick Nyeste
- David Sharek
- Jeff Smith
- Tao Zhang
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, 9-10-08
- Location: Poe 636
- Speaker: Dr. Gillan
- Topic: Visual Arithmetic and the Spatial Metaphor for Number
- FIrst HFES Student Chapter Meeting of the Semester , 9-4-08
- Location: Poe 512
- At our first chapter meeting of the semester we asked for member input on topics such as fundraising, social events, service projects, and the Tools of the Trade sessions.
- We also saw a presentation about the IBM Mentoring Program. You can learn more about the program and apply to participate in it at http://www.ibm.ncsu.edu/pathfinder.
- Student and Local HFES Chapter Event: Professor Younho Seong, 6-20-08
- HFES Chapter Social - Picnic and Soccer Game, 5-3-08
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 4-30-08
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 4-16-08
- Presenter: Chris Kelley
- Topic: Feedback and Cognitive Resources
- Student and Local HFES Chapter Event: Mica Endsley, April 11, 2008
- Student and Local HFES Chapter Event: Mica Endsley, April 10, 2008
- Topic: Situation Awareness Oriented Design
- Location: Hi5 Restaurant, Raleigh, NC
- The Carolina Chapterhosted an informal talk by Mica Endsley and a buffet meal plus cash bar at Hi5 Restaurant. Dr. Endsley spoke on her current research on situation awareness in complex systems.
- Dr. Mica Endsley, founder and president of SA Technologies, is recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems. The author of over 200 scientific articles and reports on situation awareness, Dr. Endsley's writing is often cited in professional journals. She is the co-author of Designing for Situation Awareness and speaks extensively at conferences. Dr. Endsley has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. She is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE).
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 4-9-08
- Industrial Design Case Studies, March 27
- Location: Kamphoefner Hall, Burns Auditorium at NC State
- Dr. Haig Katchatorian organized a group of faculty from the NC State Industrial Design Department to give a set of design case study presentations to the local and student HFES Chapters:
- Bryan Laffitte - "Visualization as a Tool for Collaborative Innovation"
- Percy Hooper - "Invention, Innovation & Design: Transforming Propositions to Products"
- Bong-Il Jin - "The World Traffic Safety Design Competitions"
- Dr. Sharon Joines - "Ergonomic Interventions for Ultrasound Technicians"
- Tim Buie - "Game Design: Designing the Interaction Experience"
- Student Chapter Social Event, March 25, 2008
- Carolina Hurricanes Hockey Game
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 3-19-08
- Student Chapter Social Event, Feb. 29, 2008
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 2-13-08
- Student Chapter Social Event
- NC State Basketball Game vs. Clemson, Feb. 16, 2008
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 2-13-08
- John Deere Turf Care - Plant Tour and Presentation, Feb. 14, 2008
- NCSU HFES Student Chapter Meeting, Feb. 4, 2008
- This meeting gave members an opportunity to get to know each other better over some bagels and coffee.
- NCSU Human Factors and Ergonomics Colloquium Series Lecture, 1-30-08
- HF/Ergonomics Lecture by Dr. Chris Wickens, Jan. 25, 2008
- Lecture and Dinner with Dr. Chris Wickens, sponsored by the Carolina Chapter, Jan. 24, 2008
- Location: Hi5 Restaurant, Raleigh, NC
- Topic: Overtrust in Automation and Complacency Effects with Synthetic Vision Systems
- Social Event with HFES Carolina Chapter, IIE, and SME, Dec. 18, 2007
- Location: The University Room, NC State University Club
- HF students and professionals got together for a social the evening of the last day of NCSU exams.
- HFES Student Chapter Event: Psychology Lab Tours, November 14, 2007
- Last year, Industrial Engineering opened their doors to both the Psychology Ergo/Ex program and the HFES Student Chapter by hosting a tour of their facility. In exchange, Psychology wanted to host a tour of their facility.
- Tour Schedule:
- World Usability Day, November 8, 2007
- Location: Ruvane Auditorium at GSK
- The event includes an interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech by Anthony D. Hall, food, drink, and fun!
- Hosted by TriUPA, the local chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association.
- HFES Student Chapter Lecture, November 7, 2007
- Speaker: Dr. Anne McLaughlin
- Topic: Watch Out for "Desirable" Difficulties: Including Feedback in Training
- Human Factors Lecture, November 2, 2007
- Guest Speaker: Anand K. Gramopadhye - Chair of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University
- Presentation Title: The Role of Technology in Making Air Travel Safe
- Tour of AW-NC (with HFES Carolina Chapter, IIE, and SME), Oct. 25, 2007
- HFES Student Chapter Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, October 17, 2007
- Speaker: Dr. Brad Mehlenbacher
- Topic: Triangulating Learning, Instruction, and Technology: Frameworks for Theory and Practice
- HFES Carolina Chapter Event: Research on Safety Symbols and Warnings - Some Findings in Brazil, October 8, 2007
- Speaker: Dr. Claudia Mont’Alvão, Research Professor, Coordinator of Design Program, Ergonomics Laboratory, Department of Arts & Design, PUC-Rio Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
- HFES 51st Annual Meeting
- Baltimore, Maryland, October 1-5, 2007
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting, September 26, 2007
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting,
September 10, 2007
- This was the first organizational student chapter meeting of the school year.
- HFES Carolina Chapter Social, May 8, 2007
- Location: Tir Na Nog Irish Pub in Downtown Raleigh
- HFES members of the NCSU and Carolina chapters met to celebrate the end of the semester at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub.
- This event was hosted by HFES, IIE and SME.
- Tour of Usability Lab at SAS, March 23, 2007
- HFES Students Chapter members were invited to see the usability testing lab at SAS, a software company in Cary, NC. Students saw how research is conducted in the usability lab and how usability research is applied to software user interface design. The tour was given by Paul Hankey, Usability Analyst at SAS and graduate of the Ergonomics/Experimental Psychology doctorate program at NCSU.
- Tour of the Caterpillar plant, March 15, 2007
- In conjunction with the HFES Carolina chapter, IIE and SME, members of the HFES student chapter were invited to take a tour of the Caterpillar plant in Clayton, NC to see production of large earth-moving equipment.
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting and Dinner, March 14, 2007
- Location: Mellow Mushroom in Raleigh (601 W Peace St)
- NC State HFES Student Chapter members met to enjoy some tasty pizza at this fun restaurant off of Glenwood South.
- HFES joint meeting of NCSU Student and Carolina Chapters, Feb. 5, 2007
- Guest Speaker: Henry Petroski, Professor of Civil Engineering and History at Duke University, presents "The Evolution of Useful Things"
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting
- January 24, 2007
HFES Carolina Chapter Meeting - January 11, 2007
- Location: NCSU Centennial Campus, Research-4 Bldg, Room 1611
- Ergonomics in the US Navy and Marine Corps was the topic of a presentation by Mindy Smith.
- IIE/HFES Holiday Social - December 15, 2006
- Location: State Room of the NCSU Club
- IIE hosted thisfun year-end holiday social for HFES, SME, & university students
- Guest Speaker - Admiral Ralph (Benny) Suggs
- November 16, 2006
- Admiral Suggs is a VP for Field Operations at Harley-Davison, a graduate of the Psychology Department at NC State, and the 2006 CHASS Distinguised Alumnus. His talk will address Leadership and Psychology.
- World Usability Day - November 14, 2006
- UX professionals from around the Triangle area met at Glaxo Smith Kline for a World Usability Day celebration that included an Interactionary (a live design competition between NCSU and UNC students) and keynote speech by Graeme Boddy, VP of Information Services Business Applications. The NC State team won the competition! The team consisted of Rebecca Green (team leader), Marie Panepinto, Christin Phelps, and Jennifer Cowley.
- HFES Carolina Chapter Meeting - Speaker: Carl Turner, BCBSNC
- November 8, 6:30 pm at HumanCentric Technologies Inc.
- Carl Turner of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC presented his paper on voice authentication from the HFES Annual Meeting.
- HFES 50th Annual Meeting in San Francisco - October 16 - 20
- Triangle UPA Meeting - UX Panel and Discussion
, Oct. 24, 2006
- Topic: Process, Budget, and Resources - Design in the real world
- Location: Glaxo Smith Kline, Moore Dr., Research Triangle Park
- HFES Carolina Chapter Meeting, October 3, 2006
- This year, there are four students presenting papers at the HFES Annual Meeting. They will be partially sponsored by the HFES Carolina chapter. At this meeting, the students will give a preview of their presentations.
- Jennifer Cowley: "People Do Not Identify Tire Aging as a Safety Hazard"
- Rebecca Green: "Acquiring Health Information: Interpreting Terminology and Reported Search Sources"
- Ruiqi Ma: "Situation Awareness and Driving Performance in a Simulated Navigation Task"
- Noa Segall: "Design of a Cognitive Model-Based Decision Support Tool for Anesthesiology Crisis Management
- Triangle UPA Meeting - UX Panel: Wireframing, Sept. 19, 2006
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting: Guest Speaker - Chris Medico, Sept. 18, '06
- Human perception and stress in high performance driving situations
- HFES Student Chapter Meeting - Sept. 5, 6:00 PM, Daniels 406
- Discussion on upcoming chapter events
- Presentation by Linda Brown on the NCSU/IBM Professional Advisor Program
- If you were not able to attend, please fill out the application form
 and send it to yvonne.earnshaw@gmail.com.
- A discussion with our new department head, Dr. Doug Gillan, Aug. 30, 2006
- IBM Professional Advisor Program
(Featured in the Nov. 2006 HFES
Bulletin)
- 10/28/05 - Design Center Tour
- 11/11/05 - IBM Director Demo and Lab Tour
- 1/27/06 - Superlab Tour
- 2/17/06 - Customer Briefing Center
- 3/31/06 - Performance Lab Tour
- 4/21/06 - IBM Retail Store Solutions Briefing
Center and Lab Tour
- HFES 49th Annual Meeting in Orlando
- Tours of the Ergonomics labs of Dr. Mirka and Dr.
Kaber
- Seminar presented by Dr. Julie A. Adams on "The
Human Response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
Nuclear, and Explosive Device Events"
- Seminar presented by Dr. Gary Mirka on "Applied
Ergonomics Research" sponsored by The North
Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education
and Research Center
- Lunch with an Astronaut and a Discussion of Current Space Human Factors and Robotics Research, March 10, 2006
- Presentation by Dr. Nancy Currie, Senior Technical Advisor, NASA Johnson Space Center
- Dr. Currie, a five-time Space Shuttle astronaut, spoke on the development of a telerobotics system for spacecraft repairs, one of the cutting-edge space research projects being conducted at NASA Johnson Space Center.
- HFES Carolina Chapter Meeting - Presentation: Medical
Simulators and the Need for Human Factors
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Wed., 11/18
12:15 pm
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HF/E Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Location: Poe 120
Speaker: Dr. Doug Gillan |
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Wed., 12/2
12:15 pm
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HF/E Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Location: Poe 120
Speaker: Patrick Nyeste
Topic: Anti-phishing training and cyber-security |
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