IEA Fellow Award applications open – Deadline 30
April 2025
The call for nominations for the 2025 IEA
Fellow Awards is currently open. The IEA Fellow Award is given to
recognize extraordinary or sustained, superior accomplishments of an
individual. To be considered for the IEA Fellow Award, the candidate
must have been a Full Member in good standing of a Federated or
Affiliated Ergonomics Society for at least the preceding 10 years,
and the candidate must have served the ergonomics community at
an international level. In addition, the candidate's distinction
as a Human Factors/Ergonomics professional must be demonstrated.
Please nominate deserving colleagues by 30 April 2025. Download
the application for here:
https://iea.cc/awards/fellowship-of-the-iea/
Event reminders
There are currently 4
webinars scheduled for February. Past recorded webinars can be found
here: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDnjCjRcYB7rBR2PJFw6k6w).
· FRAM, STAMP, and EAST:
case study of a collaborative robot. Systemic methods in complex and
digitalized manufacturing series: 5February 2025, 15h00
UTC. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8iUVs6MnQ9-3p7vTxFgrng
· FRAM-STPA model: case
study of an industry 4.0 plant using a digital glove. Systemic
methods in complex and digitalized manufacturing series: 8 February
2025, 15h00 UTC. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eQaYNvSiRE24emm-FM4xeg
· PSO-STPA model: case
study on an industry 4.0 plant using smart glasses. Systemic methods
in complex and digitalized manufacturing series: 15 February 2025,
15h00 UTC. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XfSnuA4kRla1as0VVCPLPg
· Informal Work in Europe:
Human Factors Perspectives and Challenges, Informal Work Webinar
Series: 25 February 2025, 15h00. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V1_vUqfkQwGcsRSMc8KSPQ
UPCOMING EVENTS
Ergonomics and Human Factors 2025: Enhancing Human
Performance: 28-30 April 2025
The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors
is organising a flagship conference for Ergonomics and Human Factors.
Submissions for this event are now open! This event will take place
at the prestigious St George’s Park, the home of England football,
for a jam-packed event focused on ‘Enhancing Human Performance’
across sectors like healthcare, nuclear, rail, construction, sport
and many more. Whether you’re passionate about innovation, improving
safety, unlocking human potential or all three, this is your chance
to learn, connect and collaborate. Book now for a transformative
experience!
Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/ee-yDfgJ
More information about submissions can be found here: https://ergonomics.org.uk/events-calendar/ergonomics-human-factors-2025.html
Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety 2025
(HEPS): 18 – 20 June 2025, Dublin, Ireland
HEPS, the triennial conference on Healthcare Systems
Ergonomics and Patient Safety, provides an international platform for
the exchange and dissemination of knowledge and experiences between
the discipline of Human Factors/Ergonomics and of Medicine and Health.
HEPS conferences are endorsed by the International Ergonomics
Association and governed by its Healthcare Ergonomics Technical
Committee. The HEPS 2025 conference “Safer Better Healthcare By All
For All”, will take place in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and will
bring together Patient and Public Involvement, Human Factors and
Ergonomics expertise and healthcare practitioners to address
healthcare safety. Abstract submission closes on the 31st
of January 2025.
More information on the HEPS conference and abstract
submission can be found here: https://www.heps2025.com
9th international Digital Human Modelling
Symposium DHM 2025: 29-31 July 2025, Loughborough, United Kingdom
DHM2025 continues a successful history of symposia
focused on digital approaches to modelling, understanding and
exploiting human simulations for a wide variety of applications and
industries. The symposium provides a friendly and accessible forum
for researchers and practitioners to share their experiences, latest
research, applications, case studies, and advancements in the field,
as well as opportunities to form new networks and celebrate existing
ones.
The Digital Human Modelling Symposium 2025 is organised
and hosted by the School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA) at
Loughborough University in the UK, in association with the Technical
Committee of Digital Human Modelling and Simulation of the International
Ergonomics Association.
For more information, please visit the conference
website:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/dhm2025/
Symposium of the Resilience Engineering Association
and Annual Resilient Health Care Society: 20-24 October 2025, Canela,
Brazil
This conference aims at advancing the knowledge of
Resilience Engineering in complex sociotechnical systems such as
healthcare, oil and gas, software engineering, and others. The theme
will be Collaboration Across Boundaries for Adaptation in the Era of Climate
Change. The conference will be held in the city of Canela, Brazil,
from the 20th to the 24th of October 2025.
Canela is a cozy town in the Guacho Highlands in the southernmost
Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and is a traditional venue to
large and small conferences. Important dates for the conferences are
included below.
Important Dates
Submissions open: 15 January, 2025
Early bird registration opens: February, 2025
Submissions close: 31 March, 2025
Outcome notifications to authors: 15 May, 2025
Early bird registration closes: 15 June, 2025
For more information, please visit the conference
website: https://www.ufrgs.br/resilience/
XXV Brazilian Congress of Ergonomics and Human
Factors, IX International Congress of Ergonomics and Human Factors
& BRICS Plus Ergonomics and Human Factors Network Meeting: 4-7
November 2025, Ceara, Brazil
The Brazilian Association of Ergonomics and Human
Factors (ABERGO) and the Latin American Union of Ergonomics (ULAERGO)
are organizing a Human Factors and Ergonomics congress in November
2025 with the theme ‘Artificial Intelligence and Technological Innovations:
challenges for ergonomics and human factors’. This event will take
place from the 4th to the 7th of November at
the Events Center/Business Factory in Iracema, Fortaleza in Caera,
Brazil, hosted by the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil. More
information coming soon.
SPOTLIGHT ON IEA
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES (TC)
After featuring the Anthropometry TC in our previous
issue, in this edition we turn our focus to the Affective Design
Technical Committee. The affective design concept emerged from
the field of Human-Computer interaction, specifically from the area
of affective computing. The goal is to deliver affective user
interfaces that are capable of eliciting certain emotional
experiences from users. Affective design is concerned with subjective
emotional relationships between users and products. Artefacts are
designed to elicit optimum physio-psychological pleasure in users
through their senses. Affective design explores affective properties
of products and how these physical attributes may be communicated
through emotional intent (citarasa) and psychological feelings
(kansei).
Importance of the Affective Design TC
Affective design of products and systems is now a
promising and dynamic field of research and application in human
factors engineering, HCI, product design, computer science, and
engineering design. Given the growing global and multidimensional
interests, there is a need for the international ergonomics community
to integrate the many threats of interdisciplinary issues underlying
this domain, from theories and methods to application. The Affective
Design Technical Committee has the goal to develop, synergize and
promote the field of research and application through collaboration
initiatives between researchers and practitioners.
The objectives of the Affective Design Technical
Committee are as follows:
- To document and develop theories and methods in
Affective Design for design purposes
- To integrate research and practices in design of
affective user interfaces
- To participate and/or organize collaborative events
for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to
share solutions
- To publish works in the form of practical solutions
for application in different domains, from consumer goods to
medical equipment
If you wish to join the Affective Design Technical
Committee, membership is free and new members are welcome. To join,
please email the chair kashi@nihon-u.ac.jp of the committee.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES (TCs):
The IEA’s Technical Committees (TCs) are ad-hoc special
interest groups that are formed as a platform to exchange up-to-date
information on and discuss a particular HFE field. More information
is available at: https://iea.cc/leadership/technical-committees/
TC Creation
Reminder: If you, with at least 5 colleagues, share a
passion for a particular special interest area which does not exist
as a Technical Committee (TC) and you wish to create
a new TC, please contact stpchair@ iea.cc for formalizing this. The process is easy and
free!
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
(TCs) SIGN UP SHEET
The IEA Technical Committees (TCs) are seeking to expand
their membership and invite new members from federated societies. To
facilitate this, we have created a sign-up form that provides an
overview of the role of Technical Committees, including their four
primary functions. By completing the form, you can express your
interest in joining up to two TCs. Once submitted, TC administrators
will review your submission and reach out for further details.
Sign-up form for Technical Committees: https://forms.gle/mMpZ9V9PhBGHPBHQ6
Joining a TC is free and there are no qualifying
criteria (just that you are a member of a federated society) to join
and to participate. You can also join more than one TC if your
interests are broader. A list of the TCs can be found on the IEA’s
website:
https://iea.cc/leadership/technical-committees/.
You are always welcome to reach out to TC chairs in
addition.
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