Conference Tracks and Scientific Advisory Boards

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The impact of Artificial Intelligence on human lives and the economy has been astonishing. Artificial Intelligence can add about $15.7 trillion to the world economy by 2030. To take that into perspective, that’s about the combined economic output of China and India as of today. With various companies predicting that the use of AI can boost business productivity by up to 40%, the dramatic increase in the number of AI start-ups has magnified 14 times since 2000. The application of AI can range from tracking asteroids and other cosmic bodies in space to predict diseases on earth, explore new and innovative ways to curb terrorism to make industrial designs.

According to Our World UN Challenges (2018),"Everybody seems to agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is, and will be, a determining factor for the future of humanity — from what it means to be human, to the social impacts of laying off Uber drivers once cars drive themselves, to AI propaganda in politics, and the rise of the robots or a superintelligence exterminating humanity. But what does AI’s bewildering profusion of implications mean for the global order? Anticipating the challenges of AI requires breaking them down into more manageable bites because failure in any one of these three distinct bundles of challenges would be catastrophic."

This conference track is intended to present both theoretical and applied perspectives. Topics covered are on a range of areas including, but not limited to topics covered by the United Nations Global Challenges

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Humans interact with computers in many ways, and the interface between the two is crucial to facilitating this interaction. HCI is also sometimes termed human–machine interaction (HMI), man-machine interaction (MMI) or computer-human interaction (CHI). Desktop applications, internet browsers, handheld computers, and computer kiosks make use of the prevalent graphical user interfaces (GUI) of today. Voice user interfaces (VUI) are used for speech recognition and synthesizing systems, and the emerging multi-modal and Graphical user interfaces (GUI) allow humans to engage with embodied character agents in a way that cannot be achieved with other interface paradigms. The growth in human–computer interaction field has led to an increase in the quality of interaction, and resulted in many new areas of research beyond. Instead of designing regular interfaces, the different research branches focus on the concepts of multimodality[citation needed] over unimodality, intelligent adaptive interfaces over command/action based ones, and active interfaces over passive interfaces.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Emerging Applications and Technologies for User Interface Design:
• Principles of designing interfaces that are user-friendly, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing.
• Interaction design to create effective and satisfying user experiences.
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• Innovative User Experience (UX) Design:
• Understanding and improving the overall experience users have with a product or system.
• Usability testing to evaluate and enhance the usability of interfaces.
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• Accessibility:
• Designing technology that is accessible to people with disabilities.
• Ensuring that interfaces are usable by individuals with diverse abilities and needs.
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• User Research:
• Methods for understanding user needs, behaviors, and preferences.
• Conducting surveys, interviews, and usability studies to gather data.
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• Cognitive Psychology:
• Understanding how people think, learn, and solve problems to inform interface design.
• Cognitive load and mental models in interface design.
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• Human Factors Engineering:
• Applying principles from psychology and ergonomics to optimize the interaction between humans and technology. Considering physical and cognitive aspects of user interactions.
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• Human-Centered Design:
• Design methodologies that prioritize the end-users throughout the development process.
• Involving users in the design and evaluation of systems.
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• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR):
• Designing immersive and interactive experiences in virtual and augmented environments.
• Challenges and opportunities in VR and AR interface design.
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• Mobile HCI:
• Designing interfaces for mobile devices, considering constraints such as screen size and touch input.
• Mobile usability and user experience.
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• Gesture and Voice Interaction:
• Designing interfaces that utilize gestures or voice commands for interaction.
• Challenges and opportunities in natural user interfaces.
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• Ethical and Social Implications:
• Addressing ethical considerations in the design and use of technology.
• Considering the impact of technology on society, privacy, and inclusivity.
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• Ubiquitous Computing:
• Designing interfaces for seamless interaction across various devices and contexts.
• The role of context-aware computing in HCI.
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• Human-Computer Collaboration:
• Studying how humans and computers can work together effectively.
• Collaboration tools and technologies.

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Accessibility, Assistive Technology and Digital Environments (AATDE) promotes the interaction between industry and academia by exchanging theories and practices on digital environments, digital twins, virtual, immersive spaces and the Metaverse technologies and applications.

Digital environments and the Metaverse, together with their technologies (such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, 5G/6G communications, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Web 3.0, Cryptocurrencies, NFT, etc.) can provide novel sensorial experiences by sparking new cognitive, sensorial, and physical reactions to human beings. On the other hand, avatars, bots, and other digital, virtual entities can define new interactions and experiences that human beings never experienced before.

With the opportunities generated by the rise of digital environments and the Metaverse, there is an urgent need to study and test new technologies to optimize the use, access, and development of those digital environments, but also to investigate the ethical, behavioral, social, philosophical, epistemological, anthropological factors that will impact the creation and proliferation of safe, secure, inclusive and accessible digital environments and virtual worlds.

This conference track aims to address a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to digital environments, digital twins, the Metaverse and virtual, immersive spaces. It provides an inspiring forum to enable researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to share business experiences and scientific research findings, while examining the new frontiers of technology, the novel research regarding advancements in the state-of-art of digital environments and the Metaverse, as well as to explore the emerging research topics and open issues, such as the Metavethics, the ethics and integrity principles applied to the Metaverse and digital environments.

Our core values are devoted to guaranteeing people-centeredness, inclusiveness, equity, interdisciplinarity, and international participation from industry and academia particularly from underrepresented minorities and communities. We welcome high quality scientific contributions that describe original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in ubiquitous intelligence and computing, AI, ML, Blockchain, Web 3.0, Digital Twins, AR/VR/MR, in the context of technological, anthropological, behavioral , ethical, and philosophical instances.

Research questions include, but are not limited to:

Design, development, and validation studies of new technological artifacts:

• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality
• Digital and Virtual Twins
• Holographic Technologies
• Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
• Brain Computer Interaction
• Human computer Interaction
• IoT and Sensors Networks
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• 5G/6G Networks
• Natural Language Processing/ Digital Signal Processing
• Computer Vision



Design, development and, validation studies of content and applications:

• Blockchain Applications
• Cryptocurrencies
• Cryptographic and NFT Applications
• Edutainment Applications
• Gaming Applications
• E-sports Applications
• Digital Health
• Intelligent Systems Applications
• Web 3.0
• Privacy and Authentication
• Data governance Applications



Studies on behavioral, sociological, psychological, legal, philosophical, ethical, and design instances of technologies and applications:

• User Experience Design
• Human Machine Interactions
• Sociological Questions
• Ethics and Integrity
• Safety and Security
• Data Protection and Privacy
• Behavioral and Psychological
• Inclusive Design
• Accessibility
• Marketing and Strategy
• Digital Information
• Social Media
• Sustainability

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The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Biomedical Engineering is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the specification, development and applications of information and communication technologies to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Big data, networking, graphical interfaces, data mining, machine learning and intelligent decision support systems are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, physiological and behavioral modeling, standardization of health records, procedures, and technologies, certification, integration, scaling-up, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community are addressing to further promote emerging technologies in healthcare. The conference encourage research in medical rehabilitation, assistive technologies, home monitoring, smart homes, research in and emerging applications of ICT have contributed greatly to the enhancement of quality of life and full integration of all citizens into society.

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Sustainable Built Environment, with a focus on Sustainable Construction in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, provides a platform for addressing construction industry challenges in the fourth industrial revolution era.

Construction has moved from the stage where buildings are constructed with any material available to cater for an immediate need. It has moved to a better state of erecting structures that are both smart and sustainable enough to prevent cost overrun and material wastage. With several policies aiming to improve the economic conditions of a particular region, sustainable construction has been identified as propelling and fast-tracking the policies in proposal and implementation towards a more stable economy. In the past, construction practices were saddled with the use of crude materials, which, in turn, made construction expensive. The need for more cost management and that of effective all-round management of construction practice has driven the construction professionals to consider ways of implementing information technologies into construction. However, the implementation has yet to be easily accepted as many professionals believe that the disadvantages involved in its full implementation outweigh the services it is going to render in construction. This gave rise to some construction firms’ sticking to the tried and tested ways of construction with little interest in adopting information technology-related concepts. The measures used mostly in traditional construction depend on human efforts and understanding that are always prone to errors due to fatigue, overloading, monotonous practices, and other factors concerned with the limited output experienced when human labour is the main source of project execution. Since the advancement in Internet facilities, clients have developed an interest in having projects delivered within the shortest possible time as they have access to information regarding construction projects delivered within days in some advanced countries. This has led to environmentalists adopting machine-related technologies to accelerate project execution while simultaneously saving cost, energy, and time. Moreover, buildings are now designed to meet environmental standards in terms of aesthetics, green option, accessibility, flexibility, land use, duration of whole life cycle, and life costing. In order to meet up with this reality, human service is becoming a liability, and engaging drones, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data, amongst others, are becoming necessary with every construction demand.

This AHFE Conference track will provide, through the scholarly work submitted and published, an understanding of various concepts, benefits, and practices that adopting Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies can bring when working towards sustainable construction goals. As digitalization continues to advance rapidly, the pressures on stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry to revamp and restructure their activities and outputs become increasingly prevalent. This AHFE conference series will further provide and venue to discuss the importance of various digital tools and principles to achieve sustainable construction projects. Various standards and concepts will be highlighted on how 4IR technologies could assist and accelerate construction sustainability. The track will link construction management with various digital tools to enhance construction projects’ sustainability. It will also provide an in-depth insight into the concept of sustainable construction 4.0 across construction professionals, sustainability experts, researchers, educators, and other stakeholders. The track will be dedicated to the publication of research guides, framework, and references on sustainable construction, thus providing a transformed understanding of sustainable projects, digitalization in the construction industry, and the 4IR.

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The conference track focuses on how human factors and ergonomic principles impact on quality of life and society lifestyles through interactions between academia, industry and government. We understand that research and design should be centered on people without considering them as the centre of the universe, but rather as people who participate in a society and world. The objective of this conference is to promote research on human factors and ergonomic principles in the context of the design of artifacts and systems (human, social, symbolic, technological, economic and cultural) that impact on health, wellbeing, safety, sustainability, food, enjoyment, accessibility, interaction, education, intelligibility, integrity, democracy and place development.

The conference welcomes submissions of Original Papers, Case Studies or Research Papers reporting on new models, practices and processes with an impact on the development of society considering people, companies, government bodies and the world.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Human Dynamics for Social Cohesion
• Arts and Creativity in Education
• Co-creation perspectives
• Creativity & Complexity
• Design & Human-Computer Interaction
• Design for Equality & Human Rights
• Design for Health
• Design for Sustainability
• Design for Welfare
• Human Dynamics and Urban Planning
• Identity, Citizenship and Mobility
• Media Arts & Socio-cultural factors
• Food Design
• Transdisciplinary design Wayfinding
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Inexpensive components and advances in technology have allowed the rapid development of new products. Creativity is the key to driving innovation. The purpose of this track is to bring together experts from different areas to show how creativity drives design and innovation so that a wider spectrum of topics related to engineering design, industrial design and ergonomics in design are integrated. This track will help cover all those within and lying in-between the areas of information technology, computer science, social science, systems engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology and others.

Innovation is applying your creativity to come up with a unique idea or solution. It is technological invention, which lets parts do what they could not previously do. Progress depends on innovation and great innovators can get rich. Entrepreneurship, by contrast, is applying the innovation to bring the ideas to life. It is social invention, which lets people do what they could not previously do. Entrepreneurs grasp the opportunity to cash in on the innovation. They build businesses and propel the innovation forward. Progress depends on entrepreneurship and great entrepreneurs get even richer than great innovators.

This conference track is intended to present both theoretical and applied perspectives. Topics covered are on a range of areas including, but not limited to:

• Analogical Reasoning for Design Creativity and Innovation
• Concept Generation and Inspiration
• Cognition of Design Creativity
• Design Synthesis
• Education for Creativity, Design and Innovation
• Inspiration and concept generation
• Innovative Process and theories
• Tools and Methods for Creativity, Design and Innovation
• Theories on Creativity, Design and Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Sources of innovation
• Leadership fundamentals for innovation
• Strategy as simple rules
• Demand creation
• The role of marketing in your business

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering promotes the exchange of ideas and technology which enable development and improvement of textile and smart fabrics and bring together Specialists from different scientific fields for the development of Textile Engineering. This conference track proposes to further the research of product-material design with respect to different materials utilized in product construction. It also considers the interaction of all design elements that contribute to the construction of the clothing object can be analyzed and discussed in a way that allows the creation of new knowledge. It provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Apparel Design, Fashion Design, Garment Engineering and Textile Engineering.

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing (AISC) promotes the exchange of ideas and technology, which enables humans to communicate and interact with machines in almost every aspect. The recent increase in machine and systems intelligence leads to a shift from interaction to a much more complex cooperative human-system work environment requiring a multidisciplinary approach.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Computing (SC) becomes more prevalent in the workplace environment and daily lives, researchers and business leaders will need to address the challenges it brings. Roles that have traditionally required a high level of cognitive abilities, decision making and training (human intelligence) are now being automated. While this boosts efficiency, decision-makers and human factors and human computer interaction researchers must be mindful to how this could impact the overall user experience. Social computing technologies weave together AI with human behavior, social experiences and computational tools. The added intelligence, social computing and analytical computing power capability, along with the new relationship between humans and technology, contributed to more reliable systems, convenience and efficiency in learning from data repositories to improving system efficiency and reliability. For those with impairments, modern-day technology has transformed their daily living into a journey toward added capability.

Human Factors in Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing focuses on the cognitive, visual, social and analytical aspects of human factors and ergonomics in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, vision, unmanned systems and robotics, simulation and wearables by considering these four key human factors dimensions:

The conference addresses a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing. It provides an excellent forum of combining real experience and research, while examining how we can adapt to machinery and increase technology acceptance, effectiveness, and efficiency.

• Ambient Intelligence
  
• Human-machine cooperation (HMC)
  
• Adaptive Human-machine cooperation (AHMC)
  
• Pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing
  
• Context awareness, and human-centric computing
  
• Technology readiness and assessment
  
• Internet of Things and connected devices
  
• Human-machine task integration
• Multi-agent Systems
• Optimization
• Data Mining
• Deep Learning
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy Logic
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural Networks
• Robotics
• Sentiment Analysis

Computing:

• Social network analysis, social data mining
  
• Social computing technologies
  
• Modeling human behavior
  
• Context-aware communication
  
• Social applications
  
• Ethical issues related to social computing technologies
• Online community, mass collaboration
  
• Search engine optimization
• Distributed Leadership concepts
  
• Technology mediated social participation
  
• Computational social science research methods
• Cognitive Computing
• Distributed and parallel systems
• Embedded Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Human-centred Computing
• Mobile computing
• Quantum Computing
• Scalable Computing

Future and Emerging Technology:

• Big Data
• Blockchain
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Data Analytics
• Digital Transformation
• Internet of Things
• Machine Learning
• Mobile Applications
• Smart Cities
• Social Computing

Learning in Digital and Pandemic Era:

• Collaborative Learning
• Curriculum Content Design
• Educational Systems Design
• e-Learning Tools
• Gamification
• Mobile Learning
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Web-based Learning

Ambient Intelligence:

• Affective computing
• Agents and Multi-agent Systems
• Ambient Assisted Living
• Context-aware pervasive systems
• Data Science
• Intelligent Transportation
• Sensing and Sensor Networks
• Smart Cities
• Smart Grids and Energy Networks
• Smart Healthcare

AI and Security:

• Biometrics
• Cryptography
• Internet Security
• Intrusion Detection

Machine Vision:

• Augmented Reality
• Brain-Machine Interface
• Computer Vision
• Geographic Information Systems
• Human Computer Interaction
• Image Processing
• Medical Diagnosis
• Segmentation Techniques

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The AHFE International Conference on Kansei Engineering (KANE) promotes the exchange of ideas and technology which enable development and improvement of products and services by translating user psychological or emotional feelings and needs into the domain of product design.

Kansei Engineering is a method for translating feelings and impressions into product parameters. The method was invented in the 1970’s by Prof. Mitsuo Nagamachi at Kure University (now Hiroshima International University). Prof. Nagamachi, the Co-Chair of the AHFE Conference on Kansei Engineering, recognized that companies often want to quantify the customer’s impression of their products. Kansei Engineering can "measure" the feelings and shows the correlation to certain product properties. In consequence products can be designed in a way, which responds the intended feeling. The conference addresses a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to Kansei Engineering. It provides an excellent forum of combining industrial experience and academic research.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Emerging topics in Kansei Engineering
• Kansei and Kagaya Service Innovation
• Techniques and Procedures
• Kansei Engineering in Soft Computing
• Biometrics and Kansei Engineering
• Kansei Innovation
• Hybrid Kansei Engineering
• Virtual Kansei Engineering
• Case Studies
• Affective Quality
• Quality Function Deployment
• Quality Management
• Global Strategy

Industrial design has been one of the fastest growing and demanding areas which made significant contributions to our lives and societies. Traditionally, industrial designers focus on the aesthetics of products' form and style as well as ergonomics. This tradition has expanded its boundary to other subject matters such as service design, human computer interaction and user experience design, sustainable design and virtual & augment reality. This is a strong indication that interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines became an essential and critical practice in design.

The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design (IPID) aims at exploring and broadening the interdisciplinary practice in industrial design. The conference includes discussions on 1) a theoretical investigation as well as professional practice to foster interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines, 2) design projects through interdisciplinary collaboration, 3) design process with external public and private sector partners with a solid record of interdisciplinary development experience and 4) design methods and techniques to investigate productive and effective interdisciplinary collaboration in design.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, those listed here:

• - Industrial design
• - Human-Centered Design, Sustainable Design
• - Engineering Design, Design education
• - Design strategy, Design method
• - Product Research and Planning
• - Entrepreneurship
• - Point of Purchase
• - Exhibit Design
• - Texture and Color
• - Material, and Finishing (CMF)

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Aging and Gerontology (HFAGE) promotes the exchange of ideas related to aging population interaction with technology and focuses on understanding the fundamentals of human physical, cognitive and psychomotor aspects as they relate to human behavior in the context of technology and systems interactions. Gerontology is the scientific study of old age, the process of aging, and the particular problems of old population. The conference focuses on the introduction of innovative human factors engineering solutions to address issues faced by older adults.

HFAGE addresses a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to aging population and population with special needs. It provides an excellent forum of exploring frontiers between researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, and offers the possibility of discussing research results, innovative applications and future directions.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Innovative Healthcare Technologies
• Design for Aging Population
• Technology Acceptance
• Automation interaction
• Demographic, Ecological and Social Dynamics
• Cognitive Aging
• Aging with Impairments and Disabilities
• Mobility and Safety of Aging Adults
• Rehabilitation
• Using technology aids for home tasks
• Making technology easier for older adults to use
• Skill Acquisition and Training

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The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Aging and Gerontology (HFAGE) promotes the exchange of ideas related to aging population interaction with technology and focuses on understanding the fundamentals of human physical, cognitive and psychomotor aspects as they relate to human behavior in the context of technology and systems interactions. Gerontology is the scientific study of old age, the process of aging, and the particular problems of old population. The conference focuses on the introduction of innovative human factors engineering solutions to address issues faced by older adults.

HFAGE addresses a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to aging population and population with special needs. It provides an excellent forum of exploring frontiers between researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, and offers the possibility of discussing research results, innovative applications and future directions.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Innovative Healthcare Technologies
• Design for Aging Population
• Technology Acceptance
• Automation interaction
• Demographic, Ecological and Social Dynamics
• Cognitive Aging
• Aging with Impairments and Disabilities
• Mobility and Safety of Aging Adults
• Rehabilitation
• Using technology aids for home tasks
• Making technology easier for older adults to use
• Skill Acquisition and Training

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To err is human, and human error is consistently implicated as a significant factor in safety incidents and accidents. Yet, as pervasive and important as human error is, the study of human error has been fragmented into many different fields. In fact, in many of these fields, the term “human error” is considered negative, and terms such as human variability or human failure are preferred. Across differences in terminology and approach, the common link remains an interest in how, why, and when humans make incorrect decisions or commit incorrect actions. Human error often has significant consequences, and a variety of approaches have emerged to identify, prevent, or mitigate it. These different approaches will find a unified home in this conference.

The purpose of the AHFE International Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance (HERRP) is to bring together researchers and practitioners in different fields who broadly share the study of human error. The HERRP conference is intended to serve as an umbrella for human error topics by providing an annual forum for otherwise disjoint research efforts. As such, the conference is intended to complement but not replace existing specialized forums on particular facets of human error. The HERRP conference is distinctly interdisciplinary, encouraging the submission of papers in focused technical domains that would benefit from interaction with a wide human factors audience. Additionally, the HERRP conference provides a yearly, high-quality, archival collection of papers that may be readily accessed by the current and future research and practitioner community.

We invite papers related to a broad range of topics on human error, including but not limited to:

• Human performance
• Human variability
• Human reliability analysis
• Human performance shaping factors
• Root cause analysis
• Accident investigation
• Human resilience and resilience engineering
• High reliability organizations
• Safety management
• Medical error
• Driver error
• Pilot error
• Automation error
• Defense in depth
• Errors of commission and omission
• Human error taxonomies and databases
• Human performance improvement and training
• Cognitive modeling of human error
• Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment

Contributions may encompass empirical research studies, original reviews, practical case studies, meta analyses, technical guidelines, best practices, or methods. Papers may encompass traditional topics of human error such as found in the safety critical industries like process control, transportation, and medicine. We also encourage innovative explorations of human error such as security, defense, new human-technology interactions, and beneficial uses of human error.

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Communication of design is concerned with understanding users, creating communication, and engaging experiences. Currently, people expect communication to be an exciting and interactive experience. Therefore, to provide such enjoyable and stimulating experiences, researchers in the discipline of communication design have identified that human factors could enrich communication of design and optimize design experience. They have initiated investigations on humanistic approaches, including the roles of human needs, emotions, thoughts, and actions, and have revealed more innovative approaches based on visuals. Furthermore, these types of connections influenced users’ experiences in design consumption. Such experiences generally exerted a considerable effect on users’ satisfaction toward the designs. Considering human factors in the communication of design enables designers to be actively connected with human needs. The exploration of human factors and design in the past decades is an appropriate and valuable opportunity to enrich and strengthen the field of communication design from the perspective of human factors.

Studies on human factors have been integral to emotions and user experiences; concerns of human factors can be integrated with communication design to develop a particularly valuable process and solution. Accordingly, human factors are expected to be the major factor driving the discipline to develop design solutions that intentionally fulfil users’ needs and desire by creating new experiences. On the basis of the preceding discussion, the aim of this conference is to explore the various methods of enriching the communication of design by considering human factors. By integrating human factors, practitioners can develop new insights into enriching the communication of design to an innovative spectrum.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, those listed here:

• Mobile graphics & interface design
• Designing experience
• Communication of design
• Empathetic & Emotion
• Interactive & interaction design
• Creative process & practices
• Designing culture
• Digital art & computer graphics
• Research methods in design communication
• Algorithms, geometry & graphics
• Multimedia & web design
• Information design & data visualization
• Advertising & media
• Animation & motion
• Image, video design & processing
• Experiential graphics
• Creative education
• Art & design for society
• New media & creative art
• Art & design technology

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The game industry has been rapidly expanding in the past decades, games became more appealing to a wider audience. The level of complexity in games control interfaces and graphics has increased exponentially, in addition to the growing interest in integrating augmented reality in gaming experience. As a result, there is a growing demand for human factors and ergonomics practitioners to ensure the users’ engagement in game design.

The purpose of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Game Design and Virtual Environments is to bring together researchers and practitioners in different fields who broadly share the study of game design applications. The gaming domain covered in this track provides an opportunity to expand human factors research in the academia. Therefore, the goal of this track is to introduce key research and development techniques that human factors practitioners utilize in game design and new applications. Specifically, to demonstrate the human factors challenges in social games, console video games, augmented reality and computer graphics and educational games for children and teens using a variety of unique interfaces, such as virtual reality, tactile controls, and gesture recognition.

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The AHFE International Conference on Design for Inclusion focuses on Universal Design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and efforts to address a broad range of issues in making technology available to and usable by all people whatever their abilities, age, economic situation, education, geographic location, culture and language. Accessibility focuses on people with disabilities — people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual impairments.

Design for Inclusion explores some of the overlaps between inclusive design and web accessibility, and helps managers, designers, developers, policy makers, researchers, and others optimize their efforts in these overlapping areas.

The conference track is concerned with the practice of universal design, which means understanding the experience and needs of every individual within a community and then designing to meet not only the largest number of those needs, but the full spectrum of need.

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The AHFE conference on Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things focuses on removing the boundary between neuroscience and computer science, and provides an alternative for developing applications, machines or systems that have reasoning abilities similar to a human brain. Cognitive computing simulates human thought processes in a computerized model.

Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things involves self-learning systems that use pattern recognition, data mining, and natural language processing to mimic the way the human brain works. The goal of the cognitive computing research is to create automated systems that are capable of solving problems without requiring direct human assistance. Cognitive computing is used in numerous artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including expert systems, natural language programming, neural networks, robotics and virtual reality.

The aim of the conference is to help redefining the nature of the relationship between people and their increasingly pervasive digital environment. Systems based on human reasoning may play the role of assistant or coach for the user, and they may act virtually autonomously in many problem-solving situations. Future aspects of Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things are projected to include: Language-processing, image-recognition, and reasoning services to power these breakthrough applications that scale up human-like analysis. Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things utilizes sentient computing, a common use of the sensors to construct a world model which allows location-aware or context-aware applications to be constructed.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, those listed here:

• Augmented Virtual Reality
• User Guidance
• Predictive Analytics
• IBM Watson Applications
• Consumer-Behavior Analysis
• Personalization and Assistance
• Sentient computing (using sensors to perceive the environment)
• Internet of things (IoT)
• Specialized Deep Learning on Big Data sets
• Generalized Artificial Intelligence systems

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This conference track provides an opportunity to share research on how simulation may advance the state of the art in human factors. As human factors continues to grow and expand, there is increasing need to use simulations to advance research that does not require embedded studies in various environments, which may be hazardous, have limited access, or involve high costs. In other words, simulation provides the means to investigate human factors phenomena when it is otherwise impractical to do so in a strictly real-world setting.

Simulation encompasses two primary thrust areas: (1) computational modeling and (2) simulator studies. Computational modeling provides the means to approximate real world processes in a digital environment, such as socio-political or cognitive activity. Simulators offer the opportunity to embed individuals within an approximation to a real world setting, such as training simulations or virtual reality.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Military applications
• Medical simulation
• Sports training
• Occupational safety
• Cybersecurity
• Socio-political modeling
• Virtual reality
• Transportation
• Graphics
• Brain-computer interfaces
• Robotics
• Augmented reality
• Embedded training
• Cognitive modeling
• Distance learning
• Shooting simulators
• Aviation
• Network science
• Multi-sensory stimulation
• Economic modeling
• Design engineering

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The Human Factors in Cybersecurity track focuses on theoretical and applied frameworks that help to understand better human behaviors in cybersecurity, privacy, and trust.

Our daily life, economic vitality, and national security depend on a stable, safe, and resilient cyberspace. We rely on this vast array of networks to communicate and travel, power our homes, run our economy, and provide government services. Yet, cyber intrusions and attacks have increased dramatically over the last decade, exposing sensitive personal and business information, disrupting critical operations, and imposing high economic costs. The human factors at the core of cybersecurity provide greater insight into this issue and highlight human error and awareness as key factors and technical lapses as the areas of most significant concern.

The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Cybersecurity will also focus on cyberspace's social, economic, and behavioral aspects, which are largely missing from the general discourse on cybersecurity. The human element at the core of cybersecurity makes cyberspace the complex, adaptive system it is.

An inclusive, multi-disciplinary, holistic approach combining technical and behavioral elements is needed to enhance cybersecurity. However, human factors also pervade the top cyber threats. Therefore, personnel management and cyber awareness are essential for achieving holistic cybersecurity.

About the Track:

Human Factors and Systems Interaction aims to address the main issues of concern within systems interface with a particular emphasis on the system lifecycle development and implementation of interfaces and the general implications of virtual, augmented and mixed reality with respect to human and technology interaction.

The objective of Human Factors and Systems Interaction is to provide equal consideration of the human along with the hardware and software in the technical and technical management processes for developing systems that will optimize total system performance and minimize total ownership costs.

This conference aims to explore and discuss innovative studies of technology and its application in system interfaces and welcomes research in progress, case studies and poster demonstrations.

Human Factors and Systems Interaction is, in the first instance, affected by the forces shaping the nature of future computing and systems development. These forces include:

• Decreasing systems and hardware costs leading to faster machines and systems.
  
• Miniaturization of hardware leading to portability.
  
• Reduction in power requirements leading to portability.
  
• New display technologies leading to the packaging of devices in new forms.
  
• Assimilation of computation into the environment (e.g., VCRs, microwave ovens, televisions).
  
• Specialized hardware leading to new functions
  
• Widespread use of computers and systems in everyday tasks
  
• Increasing innovation combined with lowering cost, leading to rapid interaction by people previously left out of the "system revolution."
  
• Wider social concerns leading to improved access to computers and systems by currently disadvantaged groups (e.g., young children, the physically/visually disabled, etc.).

About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society will focus on relations and interrelationships within these three main areas of business co- evolution of digital transformation in 4th industrial revolution. The conference targets practical approach to facilitate the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources, allowing faster learning and development of business, economic, environmental- friendly and social renewal based on the shared value thinking.

Shared value in business has been defined so that it covers the economic value creation inside a company as well as creating value for society according to its needs, demands, risks and challenges continuously creating sustainable growth. The objective is to achieve economic success through company activities so that all the stakeholders get their own share. In this way, shared value can be seen as a creative means for meeting sustainable social requirements as well as an important concept to develop company democracy. The implementation of practical organizational resource management methodologies and methods aims to reduce complexity of related to management and leadership. This conference aims to present approaches, methods and technologies to tackle this complexity. We encourage authors to explore new practical ways from human, business and societal point of view.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Continuous change in business on digital transformation
  - Sustainable growth
  - Strategy creation and development
  - Digital ecosystems
  - Knowledge creation and learning
  - Corporate team innovation
  - Value creation and competitive advantage
  - Principles on sharing data in networked business
  - Human and data-oriented interoperability
  - Data- based business architecture (Industry 4.0)
  - Human oriented ecosystem development (Society 5.0)
  


• Development of human capital
  - Team management and leadership
  - Digitalization and multidisciplinary teamwork
  - Social support in interdisciplinary teamwork
  - Organizational commitment and leadership
  - Entrepreneurship in network environment
  


• Management and leadership of company and organizational cultures
  - Organization culture in business transformation
  - Sustainable growth culture
  - Innovation and development culture
  - Democratic social organization culture
  - Networking and ecosystem development culture
  

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Researchers are conducting cutting-edge investigations in the area of unmanned systems. The efforts aim to change how humans operate the vehicles by reducing the number of personnel hours and dedicated resources necessary to execute the systems.

The growing use of unmanned systems across all military and commercial sectors is the direction of the future. Optimizing human-robot interaction is critical because the farther removed the operators are from the system, the more important their ability to intervene becomes. Along the same lines, the fewer the number of people involved in a system’s operation, the more important each individual becomes. Researchers are developing theories as well as prototype displays that could be built into actual systems.

Because humans tend to be the most flexible part of “unmanned” systems, the Human Factors and Unmanned Systems focus considers the role of the human early in the development process in order to create the best functional devices.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

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Human Factors in Sports and Outdoor Recreation aims to address the critical cognitive and physical tasks which are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions that take place during the course of any sporting event.

Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine line between task success and failure, with only marginally inadequate task execution leading to loss of the sport event or competition. This conference promotes cross-disciplinary interaction between the human factors in sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains.

Traditionally, the application of human factors and ergonomics in sports has focused on the biomechanical, physiological, environmental, and equipment-related aspects of sports performance. However, various human factors methods, applied historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited to describing and understanding sports performance. The conference track welcomes research on cognitive and social human factors in addition to the application of physiological ergonomics approaches sets it apart from other research areas.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Data Collection,
  
• Task Analysis,
  
• Cognitive Task Analysis,
  
• Understanding Sports Performance,
  
• Addressing Sport and Competition Challenges,
  
• Human Error Identification,
  
• Situation Awareness Measurement,
  
• Workload Measurement,
  
• Team Performance Assessment, and
  
• Interface Evaluation Methods.

About the Track:

Human Factors in Energy focuses on the Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries and aims to address the critical application of human factors knowledge to the design, construction and operation of oil and gas assets, to ensure that systems are designed in a way that optimizes human performance and minimizes risks to health, personal or process safety, or environmental performance. The conference focuses on delivering significant value to the design and operation of both onshore and offshore facilities

Energy companies study the role of human behavior for safety and accident prevention, however, third party providers and different operators have different standards and different expectations. While oil and gas exploration and production activities are carried out in hazardous environments in many parts of the world, offshore engineers are increasingly taking human factors into account when designing oil and gas equipment. Human factors such as machinery design, facility and accommodation layout and the organization of work activities have been systematically considered over the past twenty years on a limited number of offshore facility design projects to minimize the occupational risks to personnel, support operations and maintenance tasks and improve personnel wellbeing.

Despite the existence of these guidance and recommended design practices, and documented proof of their value in enhancing crew safety and efficiency, human factors is still not well understood across the industry and application across projects is inconsistent. Many human factors risks arise from errors or misunderstandings about the ways people think and reason about the situations they are facing and the risks involved; they are cognitive in nature. In order to reduce these risks, safety professionals need to know the important contribution that cognitive issues make in process safety and environmental incidents.

Better understanding for human factors issues also support the nuclear industry's move from analog to digital control rooms. Human considerations like lighting, temperature, even ergonomics, play important parts in the design. Human factors considerations are part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s assessment of nuclear plant design and the licensing of its operators.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Design of control rooms and facilities
  
• Screening to define requirements at concept stage of a project life-cycle
  
• Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
  
• Assessment of Valve Criticality Analysis (VCA), Vendor Package Screening, Task Analysis (TA), Human Machine Interface (HMI)
  
• Control room requirement analysis including alarm management and control room systems reviews
  
• Offshore transport
  
• Compliance with project HFE requirements
  
• Development and review of procedures by systematically improving accuracy, readability and usability
  
• Understanding the human contribution to accidents by using analytical investigation techniques to ensure human factors are fully considered when identifying the root causes of incidents and accidents; reviewing incident and accident data
  
• Identify high priority and systemic human and organizational root causes for remediation
  
• Situation awareness
  
• Cognitive bias in decision-making
  
• Inter-personal behavior
  
• Awareness and understanding of safety-critical human tasks

About the Track:

This conference track provides researchers and practitioners a forum to share research and best practices in the application of human factors to training, education, and learning sciences. Just as human factors has been applied to hardware, software, and the built environment, there is now a growing interest in the optimal design of training, education, and learning experiences. Principles of behavioral and cognitive science are extremely relevant to the design of instructional content and the effective application of technology to deliver the appropriate learning experience. These principles and best practices are important in corporate, higher education, and military training environments.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Gamification
• Competency-based learning
• Designing the learning experience
• Learner engagement
• Mobile learning
• Instructional design
• eLearning
• Web-based training
• Performance measurement
• Blended learning
• Informal learning
• Learning strategy
• Accelerated learning
• Interactive multimedia
• Adaptive learning
• Social learning
• Usability of learning technology
• Advanced learning technologies
• Virtual training
• Performance support

About the Track:

The AHFE International conference on Human Factors in Service, Software and Systems Engineering provides a platform for addressing challenges that both pushes the boundaries of current research and responds to new challenges, fostering new research ideas. If there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered.

Service engineering explores the wide range of ways in which Human Factors Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, Attitude and Opinion Assessment, Servicescape Designs and Evaluations, Cognitive Engineering, Psychometrics, Training for Service Delivery, Co-Production, Service Levels and Cost Effectiveness, Call Center Services, Customer Support Engineering, and many other possible areas relate to and impact the Engineering and Management of Service organizations. The conference track cover sessions relating to Entertainment, Health Care, Aviation, Hospitality, Culture, Education, Innovation, Banking, Finance, and Government at all levels, along with many other fields will be included. Researchers, professional software, service & systems engineers, human factors and human systems integration experts from around the world will be presenting papers addressing societal challenges and next-generation systems and applications for meeting them. Papers will address topics from evolutionary and complex systems, human systems integration to smart grid and infrastructure, workforce training requirements, systems engineering education and even defense and aerospace. It is sure to be one of the most informative systems engineering events of the year.

Areas of Interest to service engineering include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Service Transformation
• Health Information Technology
• The Impact of Age on Traditional Service Systems
• Anthropology in Service Science
• Applying service design techniques to Health Care
• Context-related Service: the Human Aspect of Service Systems
• Designing Services for Underserved Populations
• Service Theories and Research Methods
• Governance of Service Systems
• Human Aspects of Change
• T-shape education

Areas of Interest to systems engineering include, but are not limited to those listed here:

Systems engineering core concepts
· Human systems integration
· Systems engineering workflow and management
· Lifecycle analysis and cost estimation
· Automated systems
· System reliability
· Technology and system maturity models
· Risk analysis and mitigation
· Total ownership cost
· Human Performance modeling
· Uncertainty modeling
· Architecture specification
· Requirements elicitation, definition, analysis and management
· Design methodologies and frameworks
· Software systems and software-intensive systems engineering
· Verification and validation methods

Model-based systems engineering
· Agent-based systems modeling and simulation
· System dynamics
· Computational systems engineering methods
· Discrete-event systems modeling and simulation
· Optimization methods
· Multi-method systems modeling and analysis
· System analytics and visualization

Systems engineering education and training
· Systems engineering workforce development
· Systems engineering knowledge capture and management
· Systems engineering education
· STEM
· Systems thinking
· Undergraduate and capstone courses

Next-generation systems engineering
· Systems-of-systems
· Complex adaptive systems
· Enterprises-as-systems
· Evolutionary systems
· Resilient systems
· Trusted systems and cyber security
· Self-learning systems and machine learning
· Expedited and agile systems engineering methods
· Cyber-physical systems

Multi-disciplinary approaches and needs
· Systems engineering and interactive computing
· Systems engineering and economic modeling
· Systems engineering and socio-technical systems
· Systems engineering and biomedicine
· Natural systems and bio-inspired design

Systems engineering applications
· Smart transportation
· Energy Systems engineering
· Air traffic control
· Communication and sensors
· Smarter products
· Unmanned systems
· IBM Smarter cities Applications
· IBM System engineering
· Defense and aerospace
· Healthcare systems
· Humanitarian systems & disaster response
· Information technology & software development
· Manufacturing & logistics
· Smart grid & infrastructure

About the Track:

The 2023 Human Side of Service Engineering (HSSE) Conference is organized within the framework of the International Conference  on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) as an Affiliated Conference.

IIf there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered.

HSSE explores the wide range of ways in which Human Factors Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, Attitude and Opinion Assessment, Servicescape Designs and Evaluations, Cognitive Engineering, Psychometrics, Training for Service Delivery, Co-Production and Co-Creation of Value, Service Levels and Cost Effectiveness, Call Center Engineering, Customer Support Engineering, and many other possible areas relate to and impact the Engineering and Management of Service Organizations.

In 2023, sessions relating to AI & Digital Transformation, Health Care & Education, Culture & Innovation, Transportation & Communications, Infrastructure & Energy, Banking & Finance, Retail & Hospitality, Economics & Legal, and Government & Public Policy, Sustainability & Quality of Life at all levels, along with many other fields will be included.

Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Multi-disciplinary approaches in service research
• Cognitive Systems modeling of Service Systems (Digital Twins)
• Co-production, Co-creation of Value, Social Impact & Engagement
• UX Research Methods for HSSE
• Knowledge Sciences & Service Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence & Smarter, Wiser Service Systems
• Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Service Innovation
• Augmenting, Virtual & Metaverse Reality as Service Systems
• Future of Work & Digital Transformation of Service Systems
• Talent, Skills, T-Shaped Professionals and Life-Long Learning
• Adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT)
• Digital Transformation in Human-Centered Service Systems
• Sustainability, Resilience & Quality of Life
• Empowering Citizens & Digital Governance Transformation
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Service System
• Ethics, Privacy & Trust in the Era of Big Data and AI
• Anthropology in Service Science
• Context-related Service: The Human Aspect of Service Systems
• Governance of Service Systems
• Human Aspects of Change When Applying Agile and Lean Six Sigma Methods and Tools
• Human-Centered Intelligence Systems
• Human Side of Service-Dominant Logic
• Service Design & Innovation
• Service design in the AI, AR/VR & Metaverse
• Service Management, Operations & Marketing
• Social Media, Gamification and Service Strategy & Marketing
• Service System Standards
• Open Service Communities: Open Source, Open Innovation, Online Communities (e.g., GitHub, Wikipedia), & Social Sector Innovation

About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information and interdisciplinary theories applied to safety, human factors and ergonomics. The Conference welcomes papers in all aspects of Safety Management and Human Factors, including (but not limited to):

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  • Safety Management Systems (SMS)
  - Managing safety in complex systems
  - Systems engineering and safety management
  - Human performance and system safety aspects of accident investigations
  - Advanced systems for multidisciplinary Body of Knowledge applications
  - Safety management oversight, regulations, and legislation
  - Safety risk assessment and management
  - Hazard identification and control
  - Risk modeling and risk mitigation strategies
  - Safety performance monitoring and measurement
  - Management of change
  - Continuous improvement of the SMS
  - Safety promotion through awareness, training, and education programs
  - Safety communication; individual, team, organization, industry, and international
  

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  • Safety data and Informatics
  - Safety data, databases, and informatics for improving safety
  - Aggregation and disaggregation of safety data
  - Safety data and informatics methods and programs
  - Trends and issues spanning industry, governmental and international levels
  - Sharing safety data; controls, regulations and legislation
  - Methods and programs for sharing and protecting safety data
  - Intelligent systems and informatics
  

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  • Ethical Issues in Safety Management and Human Factors
  - Ethical issues in safety risk management and safety management
  - Ethical issues in safety aspects of applied human factors and ergonomics
  - Data access and disaggregation
  - Safety equity and safety disparities
  

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  • Advanced Technology and Human Factors and Ergonomics issues in Safety
  - Applications of engineering anthropometry and biomechanics
  - Workplace integration of artificial intelligence and robotics
  - Increasingly complex technology and user interfaces
  - Human machine interface
  - Work physiology
  - Fatigue risk management research and programs
  - Human factors safety research
  - Human performance and human reliability
  - Ergonomics and information systems
  - Control and communication systems
  - Personal electronic devices and distractions
  - Safety impacts of autonomous systems
  

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  • Integrated Workplace Safety and Health Programs
  - Human-centered design for safety
  - Occupational hazard identification and control
  - Risk mitigation and preventive techniques
  - Incident/accident analysis
  - Evaluating integrated workplace safety and health programs
  - Occupational psychology
  - Gross motor development (occupational therapy)
  - Occupational disease and its impacts
  - Infectious disease and epidemiology
  




• • Industrial Safety Management
  - Industrial safety
  - Work measurement
  - Workload, overload, and stressors
  - Cumulative trauma disorders
  - Construction design for safety
  - Occupational safety
  - Standards development
  - International ergonomic Issues in industrial safety
  - Accident prevention strategies
  - Participatory ergonomics
  - Performance and personnel testing
  

About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure (HFSI) provides a platform for addressing challenges in human factors and engineering research with the focus on sustainability in the built environment, applications of sustainability assessment, demonstrations and applications that contribute to competitiveness and well-being, quantification and assessment of sustainable infrastructure projects, and the environmental, human, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable infrastructure.

Presentations and special interest groups will cover sustainable infrastructure planning, engineering, design, infrastructure project financing, construction and operation: how practitioners are improving sustainable performance to meet the critical challenges of a changing operating environment. The conference is organized to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among designers, urban engineers, architects, infrastructure professionals, practitioners, public infrastructure owners, policy makers, government engineers and planners, operations managers, and leading applied academics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Ergonomics and Material Design Environment
  
• Ergonomics in Building and Architecture
  
• Ergonomics in Public Building Design
  
• Environmentally Compatible Structural Systems
  
• Smarter Cities & Sustainable Design
  
• Human Factor in Urban Design
  
• Ergonomics in Urban Design
  
• Human Scale in Architecture
  
• Ergonomics in Sustainable Architecture
  
• Smart Architecture in Sustainable Infrastructure
  
• Ergonomical Quality of Building Microclimate
  
• Methodology of Ergonomic Design
  
• Ergonomical Design for Disabled and Elderly
  
• Ergonomical Evaluation in Architecture
  
• Teaching Methods in Architectural Ergonomics
  
• Ergonomics in Industrial Design Art Forms
  
• Ergonomics in Sustainable Design
  
• Ergonomics in Design Gerontotechnological (Aging)

About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare will highlight new research on how to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care through the application of human factors and ergonomics principles. Leading researchers will continue to provide guidance for those involved with the design and application of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery. Sessions will be formed in various areas including patient safety, healthcare information technology implementation and human performance. Various perspectives will be considered including clinician, patient, health organization and insurance provider. Applications describe best practices of staff interactions with patients, as well as interaction with computers and medical devices. Findings related to improved organizational outcomes in a healthcare setting, and approaches to modeling and analysis specifically targeting those work aspects unique to healthcare will be presented. The physical, cognitive and organizational aspects of human factors and ergonomics applications will be uniquely emphasized. We look forward to your participation.

• Behavior based safety
• Cognitive modeling and human error
• Comfort, quality and performance
• Computers and healthcare IT
• Diagnostics and usability in healthcare
• Electronic health records
• Home healthcare
• Medical device design
• Medication impairment
• Nursing education and training
• Organizational issues in safety and performance
• Patient falls and patient handling
  
• Patient safety and medical errors
  
• Pharmacy and prescription handling
  
• Medication administration
  
• Risk assessment and management
  
• Systems safety
• Team coordination in anesthesiology & surgery

About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applied Optimization (DHMAO) aims to bring together researchers, engineers, applied mathematicians and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of human system simulation models

An ergonomic design is a core requirement for usability and, thus, for the overall acceptance and success of new products and technical systems. The same is true for offices, production lines, many other workplaces and vehicles. All of them have to be designed in order to match characteristics, capabilities and competencies of a variety of future users. Relevant aspects refer to physical (i.e. anthropometry, biomechanics, mobility and reach, posture, and physical performance), and cognitive (information processing, behavior, error) aspects. The overall complexity requires software aids or ergonomic tools and methodologies for consideration in early system design phases.

Digital Human Models (DHMs) are software tools which provide access to complex anthropometric and biomechanics databases, and allows the ergonomists to make appropriate design evaluation or recommendations.. They facilitate the use of body dimensions and shape, human postures and motions, human physical performance and their variability. In addition to physical accommodation and performance, they allow analyses of vision, comfort and workload (both physical and cognitive). Other models also exist to process optimization, and hazards such as thermal and radiation. DHMs have become more powerful recently. Intelligent Human Models or Virtual Humans have become more popular for gaming, education, and training. In these models, Virtual Environments, and the appearances of humans and their behavior are becoming more realistic than before. New developments in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) are also leading us to new approaches for a comprehensive three dimensional realistic models.

The AHFE DHMAO conference covers the broad areas of both research and applications of these simulation models for aviation, manufacturing and production industries, and addresses issues ranging from anthropometric and biomechanical DHMs to VR/AR based avatars in gaming. Contributions to this conference will address a broad mix of scientific background, implementation and application. The multidisciplinary aspect of this conference of this topic will serve as a valuable basis for building a network for future collaboration.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Digital Human Modeling Tools and Platforms
• Virtual Humans and Avatars
• Anthropometric models (conventional, surface)
• Anthropometric surveys
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biomechanical models
• Motion capture
• Posture modeling
• Comfort
• Human Behavior Representation and Models
• Process Modeling and Simulation
• Decision making
• Human performance and risk assessment
• Vehicle/car interior design
• Workplace design
• Optimization of work processes
• Production planning

About the Track:

This conference will focus on a more positive emotional approach in product and system design and emphasize aesthetics and enjoyment in user experience. This conference objective is to provide for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of affective and pleasurable design. This conference invites research experts and industry practitioners from multidisciplinary backgrounds, including industrial designers, emotion designer, ethnographers, human-computer interaction researchers, human factors engineers, interaction designers, mobile product designers, and vehicle system designers.
Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Affective usability
  
• Emotional user experience
  
• Aesthetics for product and system design
  
• Design driven innovation
  
• Emotional requirements in product and system design
  
• Emotional values in design process
  
• Fun in product and service design
  
• Kansei engineering for product and service
  
• Evaluation for affective and pleasurable design
  
• Evaluation tools for emotion
  
• Measuring affectiveness and pleasure
  
• Affective computing
  
• Emotional aspects in social networking system
  
• Emotional interaction design and tools for ubiquitous computing
  
• Social interaction in affective and pleasurable design

• Accident analyses
  
• Air traffic control and management
  
• Automation of systems and vehicles
  
• Case studies
  
• Control rooms
  
• Collision avoidance
  
• Comfort
  
• Distraction
  
• Drivers
  
• Eco-driving
  
• Education
  
• Enforcement
  
• Experience
  
• Flight deck systems
  
• Hazards
  
• Human error
  
• In-vehicle devices
  
• Intelligent transport systems
  
• Interfaces
  
• Methodologies
  
• Model-based design tools
• Motorcycles
• New systems and technology
  
• Next Generation Air Transportation System
  
• Observational studies
  
• Pilot performance
  
• Risk
  
• Safety
  
• Simulator studies
  
• Situation awareness
  
• Skill
  
• Supervisory control
  
• Testing
  
• Training
  
• Trust
  
• Unmanned aerial vehicles
  
• Verification and validation
  
• Violations
  
• Warnings
  
• Workload

About the Track:

This conference will focus on the importance of the Ergonomics principles, methods and techniques, in the design and implementation of products and systems.

The AHFE International Conference on Ergonomics In Design welcomes papers that cover articles, case studies, and interventions, on the way in which ergonomics research and methods are applied in the design, development, prototyping, evaluation, training and manufacturing processes of a product and system.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Cultural aspect in design
  
• User Experience in design
  
• User research
  
• User characteristics
  
• Game Design
  
• Automobile Design
  
• Aerospatiale Design
  
• Design of critical systems
  
• Organizational Design
  
• Innovational Design
  
• Interaction Design
  
• Ecological Design
  
• Educational Design
  
• Cognitive Ergonomics in Design
  
• Virtual Reality in Design
  
• Control room design
  
• Product Design
  
• Manufacturing Design
  
• Service Design
  
• Design of Extreme Environments
  
• Warning Design
  
• Environmental built
  
• Design for Accessibility
  
• Information Design

About the Track:

The discipline of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) is concerned with the design of products, process, services, and work systems to assure their prodctive, safe and satisfying use by people. Physical ergonomics involves the design of working environments to fit human physical abilities. By understanding the constraints and capabilities of the human body and mind, we can design products, services and environments that are effective, reliable, safe and comfortable for everyday use.

This conference track focuses on human body's responses to physical and physiological work demands. Repetitive strain injuries from repetition, vibration, force, and posture are the most common types of issues, and thus have design implications. Physical ergonomics is concerned with the study of the users, which involves understanding their physical characteristics, capabilities, limitations, and motivations. Study of jobs or tasks includes assessing the technical systems, work processes, workstations/equipment, and tools. Areas of focus in physical ergonomics include the consequences of repetitive motion, materials handling, workplace safety, and comfort in the use of portable devices, design, working postures, and the work environment.

A thorough understanding of the physical characteristics of a wide range of people is essential in the development of consumer products and systems. Human performance data serve as valuable information to designers and help ensure that the final products will fit the targeted population of end users. Mastering physical ergonomics and safety engineering concepts is fundamental to the creation of products and systems that people are able to use, avoidance of stresses, and minimization of the risk for accidents. The conference track on physical ergonomics & human factors focuses on the advances in the physical HF/E, which are a critical aspect in the design of any human-centered technological system.

About the Track:

Successful interaction with products, tools and technologies depends on usable designs and accommodating the needs of potential users without requiring costly training. In this context, this conference track is concerned with emerging ergonomics, specifically in modeling, usability, human computer interaction and innovative design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement.
The conference track on ergonomics modeling, usability & special populations will be of special value to a large variety of professionals, researchers and students in the broad field of human modeling and performance who are interested in feedback of devices’ interfaces (visual and haptic), user-centered design, and design for special populations, particularly the elderly.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:

• Usability Engineering
• Devices and user interfaces
• Human Computer Interaction
• Virtual reality and digital environment
• User studies and product evaluation
• Limits and capabilities of special populations, particularly the elderly
• Research methods and user-centered evaluation approaches

About the Track:
This conference will focus on neurophysiological assessment to improve cognitive and affective aspects of product and system design and overall user experience. This conference objective is to provide a platform for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of this emerging field at the intersection of neuroscience, neuroengineering, physiology, psychology and human factors. This conference invites research experts and industry practitioners from multidisciplinary backgrounds, including industrial designers, ethnographers, human-computer interaction researchers, human factors engineers, interaction designers, mobile product designers, and vehicle system designers.

• Affective usability
• Cognitive and Emotional user experience
• Aesthetics for product and system design
• Design driven innovation
• Emotional requirements in product and system design
• Emotional values in design process
• Evaluation for affective and pleasurable design
• Evaluation tools for cognition and emotion
• Affective and adaptive computing
• Brain Computer Interfaces
• Emotional aspects in social networking system
• Emotional interaction design and tools for ubiquitous computing
• Social interaction in affective and pleasurable design

About the Track:

Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics aims to support the exploration of how ergonomics can contribute to the solution of important societal and engineering challenges. Social and Occupational Factors discusses the optimization of sociotechnical systems, including their organizational structures, policies, and processes. It includes coverage of communication, crew resource management, work design, design of working times, teamwork, participatory design, community ergonomics, cooperative work, new work paradigms, organizational culture, virtual organizations, telework, and quality management.
Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics concepts provides the bases for innovative research on urban infrastructures and how to shape urban spaces, including stadiums and museums. It covers warning systems in cars, voice-based interfaces, and the positive effects on manufacturing processes available from health informatics and management systems. The conference track support providing suggestions on how to improve enterprise resource planning systems and the importance of lifelong learning, personalized learning, and work-life balance. It also covers issues with special populations, detailing how to design and adapt products and work situations for these groups. In addition to exploring the challenges faced in optimizing sociotechnical systems, the track underlines themes that play a role in all the challenges and how they are linked to each other, with an exploration of emotional ergonomics and the important positive effects of making people happy and healthy.

About the Track:

This conference track will focus on topics related to people-centered issues in the design, operation and management of broadly defined advanced manufacturing systems and processes, and human factors issues related to intelligent manufacturing technologies; web-based manufacturing services; digital manufacturing worlds; manufacturing knowledge support systems; and other contemporary manufacturing environments.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Human Factors in Globalized Manufacturing Enterprises
  
• Human Factors in Green Manufacturing: Paradigms and Applications
  
• Knowledge Management in Manufacturing Enterprises in a Digital World
  
• Intelligent and Self-Organizing Manufacturing Systems
  
• Future Trends in Advanced Manufacturing and Human-Integrated Enterprises
  
• Issues in Hybrid Manufacturing Systems: Concepts, Theories and Models
  
• Modern Manufacturing Paradigms and Market Competitiveness
  
• Human Factors Engineering: Design, Testing and Evaluation of Work Systems
  
• Organizational Learning in Manufacturing Environments
  
• Cognitive Engineering and Manufacturing Systems Design
  
• Human Factors of Maintenance, Inspection and Testing
  
• Human Factors in Lean, Six Sigma and TQM
  
• Human-Computer Interaction and Manufacturing Systems Usability
  
• Management of Agile Manufacturing Enterprises
  
• Human Factors in Supply Chain Management
  
• Automation Safety, Robot Systems and Accident Prevention
  
• Human Factors in Maintenance, Inspection and Testing
  
• Human Factors in Lean, Six Sigma and TQM
  
• Human-Computer Interaction and System Usability
  
• Supply Chain and Value Stream Management
  
• Social & Organizational Design and Management Issues
  
• Virtual Reality and AI Applications in Manufacturing
  
• Work Design in Development of Personnel in Advanced Manufacturing
  
• Virtual Collaboration Teams and E-Learning in Manufacturing Environment
  
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Design in Manufacturing
  
• Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Architectures
  
• Manufacturing Systems Simulation and Visualization
  
• Manufacturing Processes: Usability Assessment
  
• Mass Customization in Manufacturing Processes
  
• Lean Manufacturing Enterprises
  
• Design of the Human Infrastructure for Computer-Integrated Technology
  
• System and Human Reliability, Safety and Worker Health Issues
  
• Environmental Protection and Quality Management