LAST CHANCE! IEA/Kingfar Award and IEA/Tsinghua Award 2025 applications now open – Deadline: 30 June 2025 The IEA/Kingfar Award is given annually to early career professionals to promote and reward high-quality original research and applications on new and emerging HFE issues or issues specifically related to industrially developing countries, as well as to promote a career path in HFE. Nominees can be from any country including both IDCs and developed countries. Up to 13 winners can be recognised each year, with 8 awards given to PhD students, and 5 awards to early career scholars/researchers (within 10 years of completing a PhD). The award amount is $1,000 for each selected student and $1,500 for each selected early career researcher. The criteria for the IEA/Kingfar award can be found here: https://iea.cc/awards/iea-kingfar-award/ The IEA/Tsinghua Award for Collaborative Human Factors/Ergonomics Education is given annually to honor persons (e.g. researchers, teachers) who, through international and/or inter-regional collaboration, have made significant and outstanding contributions to the success of postgraduate educational programs that include human factors/ergonomics (HFE) courses or substantial HFE content in the curriculum. The intent of this award is to mobilize educators worldwide for HFE education. Up to 4 programs may be awarded. Each program may be represented by up to two nominees. The award consists of a monetary prize of $4,000 per selected program. The criteria for the IEA/Tsinghua award can be found here: https://iea.cc/awards/iea-tsinghua-award/ ONGOING: IEA social media: Help us share your content! The IEA is keen to promote your activities, events and achievements. 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EVENT REMINDERS Resilience Engineering and Artificial Intelligence: Webinar Series on Resilience Engineering, 3 July, at 14h00 UTC This webinar will explore the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Resilience Engineering (RE), showcasing how safety-critical industries are applying systems-based disciplines to guide the integration of AI into mission-critical functions. The webinar will highlight applications in healthcare, defence, and aviation, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of designing, developing, and assuring resilient performance in AI-infused systems. Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z-BxpUcdQ32zw0EfzTS01A Past recorded IEA webinars can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDnjCjRcYB7rBR2PJFw6k6w UPCOMING EVENTS 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 an Annual Resilient Health Care Society Meeting: 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 Outcome notifications to authors: June 15, 2025 Early bird registration closes: June 30, 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. HFESA Annual Conference: Human Factors in a Complex System, 1 – 3 December 2025, Launceston, Tasmania The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia is hosting their annual conference in Launceston from 1 to 3 December 2025. This year’s theme, Human Factors and Complexity Systems, will explore how contemporary methods help solve real-world, complex problems. The conference will highlight strategies for identifying, managing, and mitigating hazards in complex environments while evaluating the effectiveness of innovative solutions. HFESA 2025 will bring together world leaders, emerging scientists, practitioners, and strategists across disciplines, including human-centred design, safety science, engineering, psychology, occupational health, environmental design, technology development, and more. This event aims to create a vibrant environment that fosters lively debate on pivotal issues shaping our future, gain insight from a broad range of expertise, and inspire action as you leave invigorated, equipped with new knowledge and courage to contribute to a better future. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://conf.ergonomics.org.au The slips, Trips and Falls International Conference (STF2026) will be held on June 16-18 2026, Huntsville, Alabama, USA Mark your calendars and save the dates for this conference on slips, trips and falls taking place in Huntsville, Alabama in June 2026. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://www.uah.edu/education/special-programs/slips-trips-falls SPOTLIGHT ON IEA TECHNICAL COMMITTEES (TC) After featuring the Visual Ergonomics TC in our previous issue, in this edition we turn our focus to the Resilience Engineering TC. Socio-technical systems have grown larger and more interconnected, implying higher levels of complexity that challenge existing theories and methods based on linear thinking. Resilience Performance (RP), which is the system’s property that enables adaptation and survival in the face of both expected and unexpected circumstances, is paramount under high-complexity conditions. RP is emergent, partly arising from the self-organization of people who fill out gaps in work system design and partly from resources designed ahead of time. These two dimensions of RP interact with each other as well as with several performance dimensions of socio-technical systems such as safety, productivity, quality, sustainability, and reliability. Resilience Engineering is a thriving field concerned with understanding and influencing Resilience Performance in a variety of sectors such as, healthcare, aviation, maritime, software engineering, manufacturing, and construction, among others. For that purpose, Resilience Engineering has developed new theories and methods, often re-interpreting existing human factors and ergonomics approaches. Objectives of the Resilience Engineering TC The objectives of the Resilience Engineering TC are to: · Contribute to IEA conferences and other relevant conferences with special sessions, workshops, papers, and group meetings on resilience engineering · Collect and share educational materials (e.g. lectures, videos, seminars) on resilience engineering · Foster the dialogue of resilience engineering practitioners and academics with the broader human factors and ergonomics community; and · Support international collaboration on resilience engineering, ideally with funded research projects with participants from multiple countries Topics of interest Some of the topics of interest of the Resilience Engineering TC are as follows: · Resilience Engineering (RE), safety (and security) management · Systems theory · Measurement of resilient performance · RE, climate change, natural and man-made disasters · Modelling of complex socio-technical systems · Model Quantification: metaheuristics and artificial intelligence · Contribution of digital technologies and industry 4.0/5.0 to resilient performance · Cyber-resilience · RE and sustainability · RE and naturalistic decision-making · Design for resilient performance · Design and management of resilience procedures, policies and rules · Regulations and resilient performance · Leadership for resilient performance · Management of trade-offs in socio-technical systems ·Cross-learning opportunities from RE in multiple sectors – e.g healthcare, aviation, maritime, manufacturing, construction If you wish to join the Resilience Engineering Technical Committee Please Click On This Link 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. |