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Conference Tracks and Scientific Advisory Boards

AHFE 2023 International, jointly with the affiliated conferences, will be held under the auspices of 45 scientific advisory boards comprising 896 board members, under one management and one registration.


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Global Issues Challenge and Awards: Human Factors in Disease Control and Pandemic Prevention
Scientific Advisory Board

Chair:
Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada

Board Members:
Terra Arnason (Saskatchewan Health Authority), Canada
Lisa Elliott (School of Humanities and Social Sciences), USA
Gianni Montagna (Lisbon School of Architecture), Portugal
Micaela Porta (State Cagliari University), Italy
Pradip Kumar Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), India
Xiaoqun Yu (Human Factors and Ergonomics Lab), Korea
Matteo Zallio (University of Cambridge), UK


About the Track:

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers, Infectious diseases emerging throughout history have included some of the most feared plagues of the past. New infections continue to emerge today, while many of the old plagues are with us still. These are global problems (William Foege, former CDC director now at the Carter Center, terms them global infectious disease threats). As demonstrated by influenza epidemics, under suitable circumstances, a new infection first appearing anywhere in the world could traverse entire continents within days or weeks (Morse, 1995)..

According to Halstead (1996),"When the underlying causes and mechanisms of emerging infectious disease problems are studied carefully, human behaviour is often involved". Even more often, the only methods of control or prevention available are to change human behaviour. Several major recent emerging disease problems can be cited. It is sometimes emphasized that it is human carelessness, human excesses, human ignorance or human habits of conquest or leisure which contribute directly to the biological niches that microorganisms are all too capable of exploiting. We must look at ourselves as the engines of microbial opportunism. It is not likely that we will ever conquer the microbial world; we must look instead to control the human factors that contribute to emergence.

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 World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.emro.who.int/index.html


Human-Centered Metaverse and Digital Environments
Scientific Advisory Board

Chair:
Matteo Zallio (University of Cambridge), UK

Board Members:

Jess Alekseyev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
Liane Rose Colonna (Stockholm University), Sweden
Oliver Korn (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences), Germany
Takumi Ohashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan
Marcelo M. Soares (SUSTech - Southern University of Science and Technology), China


About the Track:

The AHFE International Conference on Human-Centered Metaverse and Digital Environments (HCMDE) 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:


What is the Metaverse, and why does it matter?

  • How do we empower engineers, designers, developers, users to get involved in the Metaverse?
  • How can we make an inclusive and safe digital twin?
  • How can we ensure the Metaverse is ethical, open, safe and accessible?
  • How can we design a Metaverse that exceeds user expectations?
  • How do we design governance in the Metaverse?
  • Areas of interest 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

Health Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Applications
Scientific Advisory Board

Chair:
Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada

Board Members:

TBD


About the Track:

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.


Sustainable Construction in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Clinton Aigbavboa (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Emmanuel Oke (Federal University of Technology), Nigeria
Wellington Thwala (University of South Africa), South Africa

Board Members:

Samuel Adekunle (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Douglas Aghimien (De Montfort University), UK
Divine Ahadzie (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Ghana
John Aliu (University of Georgia), USA
S. K. Ansah (Cape Coast Technical University), Ghana
Chimay Anumba (University of Florida), USA
Bankole Awuzie (Central University of Technology), South Africa
Bernard Martin Arthur-Aidoo (Accra Technical University), Ghana
Derick Booyens (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Brink Botha (Nelson Mandela University), South Africa
Nicholas Chileshe (UNISA), Australia
Hoffie Cruywagen (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Faith Dowelani (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Andrew Ebekozien (Federal Polytechnic Auchi) Nigeria
David Edwards (Birmingham City University), UK
Obuks Ejowohmu (Manchester University), UK
Danie Hoffman (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Matthew Ikuabe (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Riaan Jansen (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Kahilu Kajimo-Shakantu (University of the Freestate), South Africa
Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan (University of Regina), Canada
Ernest Kissi (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Ghana
Katharina Klemt-Albert (RWTH Aachen University), Germany
Simon Ofori Ametepey (Koforidua Technical University), Ghana
Titus Kwofie (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Ghana
Murendeni Liphadzi (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Jeffrey Mahachi (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu (University College London), UK
Nokunlunga Mashwama (Walter Sisulu University), South Africa
Charles Mbohwa (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Zakari Mustapha (Cape Coast Technical University), South Africa
Erastu Mwanaumo (University of Zambia), Zambia
Tebogo Ngele (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Ntebo Ngozwane (Construction Industry Development Board), South Africa
Chidozie Nnaji (University of Nigeria), Nigeria
Babatunde Ogunbayo (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
Oluwabunkunmi Ogunsanya (Kingston University), UK
Olusegun Oguntona (Walter Sisulu University), South Africa
Ifije Ohiomah (University of the West of England), UK
Dayo Osunsanmi (Edinburg Napear University), UK
Tunji-Olayeni Patience (Covenant University), Nigeria
Inge Pieterse (University of Pretoria), South Africa
Sontaosh Ramchuran (Council for Scientific and Industry Research), South Africa
John Smallwood (Nelson Mandela University), South Africa
Matthew Kwaw Somiah (Takoradi Technical University), Ghana
Callistus Tengan (Bogatanga Technical University), Ghana
Benita Zulch (University of Pretoria), South Africa


About the Track:

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.


Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:
• Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Realities in sustainable construction
• Big data and the Construction industry
• Carbon emissions and energy usage in the built environment
• Changing roles and responsibilities of project stakeholders in sustainable construction projects
• Circular economy in construction
• Construction digitalisation
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Digitalisation and construction human resource management
• Efficient and sustainable use of construction materials
• Health, safety and well-being of construction workers and end-users
• Housing affordability and sustainable development problems
• Indoor environmental quality and management
• Information modelling and Digital Twin Technology (BIM, BrIM, CIM, GIS)
• Innovative Building Materials for sustainable construction
• Innovative Building Technologies for sustainable construction
• Innovative financing of sustainable infrastructure
• Land use planning and sustainable development
• Material management and environmental concerns
• Material re-use in infrastructure development
• Pollution in the urban environment
• Regulatory Framework for and Government Initiatives
• Sustainable building design and refurbishment
• Sustainable supply chain management and procurement strategies in construction
• Sustainable waste management • Sustainable construction practices
• Value management and sustainable practice
• Green Buildings Development
• Sustainable Green Building stakeholders management
• Alternative building systems
• Innovation in the built environment
• Alternative power supply systems
• Re-use of grey water
• Cost modelling and cost control
• Short-term insurance in the building industry
• Policy guidelines for the built environment
• Life Cycle Costing
• Sustainable value Management
• Sustainable Facilities Management
• Sustainability in Real Estate



Creative Technology and Digital Media

Scientific Advisory Board

Chair:
Amic G. Ho (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), Hong Kong

Creative Technology and Digital Media Board Members:
Shin Jun Bum (Oregon State University), USA
Tan Liang (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts), China
David Yip Kei Man (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong


About the Track:

Screen-based design and environment technologies have progressed over the last decade, digital art and design have been rapidly developed in a fast-changing approach. The artistic experimentation with immersive technologies and motion designs is reshaping the bounds of conventional art and design, allowing for greater creativity with alternative experiences.

Designing motion visual images and experimenting with immersive technology are examples of how today's imaginative designers and visual artists are challenging established art and design conventions. This collection of new visuals includes a diverse range of artistic applications, ranging from curatorial ractices and screen-based design—to animations and virtual imaging—and showcases the most current trends and directions in art and design studies from established and emerging artists and designers as well as to consider their audience's and needs.

The symposium aimed to bring together scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields in various creative elements of Creative Media, Digital Imaging and Digital Art, etc. It offers the possibility of discussing a number of significant themes in the debate over art versus technology, the existence of both online and offline interpretation, and the employment of digital and non-digital platforms.


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

• Media Art
• Art and Technology
• Creative Practices
• Creative Media
• Emerging Art and Design
• Creative Technology
• Data Visualization
• Computational Images & Graphics
• Image and Video Processing
• Computer Graphics
• Digital Art
• Immersive Art
• Generative Graphics
• Interactive Art
• Curatorial Practices
• Installation
• Creative Technology
• Digital Asset on Art


Human-Centered Aerospace Systems and Sustainability Applications
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Pedro Arezes (University of Minho), Portugal
Susana Costa (University of Minho), Portugal

Board Members:

Allison Paige Anderson (University of Colorado), USA
Ilaria Cinelli (Aerospace Human Factors Association), Italy
Nelson Costa (University of Minho), Portugal
Marino Menozzi (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
Luis Serina (Portugal Space Agency), Portugal
Alexandre Silva (University of Minho), Portugal
Neville Stanton (Retired), UK
Leia A. Stirling (University of Michigan), USA


About the Track:

Aerospace Systems research refers to system-level development regarding aeronautics and astronautics. As a complex and multidisciplinary area, Aerospace Systems focuses on the research and development of methods and techniques to tackle the challenges of designing, managing, operating and improving the performance of onboard systems found on most aircraft and spacecraft. Human-Centered Aerospace Systems address these issues with a focus on the Human that operates and maintains such systems, improving the interaction between the user and the machine, promoting a better fit of the physical structures that surround him/her and enhancing Human performance. The increasing democratization of the airspace has allowed the evolution of a wide scope of applications that use the data thus obtained, for what it is important, also, to reflect on the applications that these tools have that benefit the Human, more concretely (although not only) in the sphere of Sustainability.

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

  • Satellite-based navigation
  • Satellite Systems Data Applications
  • Applications of EM signals
  • Space environment and effects
  • Space mission design tools
  • Space communications systems
  • Space projects: tools for simulation
  • Space projects’ financial and legal aspects
  • Satellite engineering and design
  • Advanced control and applications
  • Launchers guidance and control
  • Onboard date handling subsystems: functions and architectures
  • Aerospace Engineering Design
  • Aerospace Manufacturing
  • Aerospace Systems Design and Engineering
  • Human-Centered design in avionics
  • Human-Centered aviation automation
  • Human-Centered Design of Human-machine Space Systems
  • Human-Centered design for maintenance
  • Maintenance resource management (MRM)
  • Crew Resource Management (CRM)
  • Human-Centered design for cockpit displays
  • Human Performance
  • Space Biomedics
  • Human Space Exploration





Human Dynamics and Design for the Development of Contemporary Societies
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Daniel Raposo (CIAUD & Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco), Portugal
Nuno Martins (ID+ & Polytechnic Institute of Cavado e Ave), Portugal
Daniel Brandão (University of Minho Braga), Portugal

Board Members:
Marco Adelfio (Chalmers University of Technology ), Sweden
Rita Assoreira Almendra (CIAUD), Portugal
Mario Buono (The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), Italy
Fernando José Carneiro Moreira Silva (Universidade de Lisboa & CIAUD), Portugal
Jan Eckert (University of Gothenburg), Sweden
Hywel Evans (Tsuru University), Japan
Luís Manuel do Carmo Farinha (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco/University of Beira Interior), Portugal
Ana Margarida Ribeiro Dias Fernandes Gomes Ferreira (Universidade da Beira Interior ), Portugal
Jorge Frascara (University of Alberta), Canada
Sara Miriam Goldchmit (Universidade de São Paulo), Brazil
Cristina Caramelo Gomes (Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa), Portugal
Juan Ramón Martín San Román (Pontifical University of Salamanca), Spain
Catarina Lelis ( Universidade de Aveiro), Portugal
Moisés de Lemos Martins (University of Minho & Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade), Portugal
Vera Lúcia Vintém Barradas Martins (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre), Portugal
João Vasco Matos Neves (CIAUD & Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco), Portugal
Vítor Hugo Mendes da Costa Carvalho (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)/Centro Algoritmi (Uminho)), Portugal
Heitor Manuel Pereira Pinto da Cunha e Alvelos (University of Porto), Portugal
Maria de Fátima Teixeira Pombo (Universidade de Aveiro), Portugal
Sakthi Prakash (The Pennsylvania State University), USA
Cátia Sofia Tiago Duarte Rijo (Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa do Politécnico de Lisboa), Portugal
Patrick Seitzinger (University of Saskatchewan; University of British Columbia), Canada
Liliana Soares (Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo), Portugal
Fernando Suárez-Carballo (Pontifical University of Salamanca ), Spain
Karel van der Waarde (Loughborough University/Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), UK/Switzerland
Erik Vantomme (University of Saskatchewan), Canada


About the Track:

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




Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Evangelos Markopoulos (Hult Business School / Queen Mary University of London), UK
Ravindra S. Goonetilleke (Khalifa University), UAE
Yan Luximon (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Hong Kong

Board Members:
Emily Au (University of Berkeley), USA
Kenny Chow (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Hong Kong
Hua Dong (Loughborough University), UK
Emma Luisa Gann (Delta Research Institute), Germany
Markus Hartono (University of Surabaya), Indonesia
Thomas Hoffmann (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck), Germany
University), Hong Kong
Long Liu (Tongji University), China
Wei Liu (Beijing Normal University), China
Chi-Wen Lung (Asia University), Taiwan
Harris Makatsoris (Kings College London), UK
Chandra Nair (Zebra Technologies), USA
Tero Reunanen (Turku University of Applied Sciences), Finland
Asanka Rodrigo (University of Moratuwa), Sri Lanka
Rosemary Seva (De La Salle University), Philippines
Kimberly Sheen (Manchester Metropolitan University), UK
Luo Shijian (Zhejiang University ), China
Hannu Vanharanta (University of Vaasa), Finland
Konstantinos Vergos (Portsmouth University), UK

About the Track:

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

Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology
Scientific Advisory Board

Chair:
Umer  Asgher (National University of Sciences and Technology), Pakistan

Board Members:
Ellie Abdi (Montclair State University), USA
José Arzola-Ruiz (Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana), Cuba
Hasan Ayaz (Drexel University), USA
Yasar Ayaz (National University of Sciences and Technology), Pakistan
Vitalina Babenko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University), Ukraine
Suhail Chughtai (Medical City Online), UK
Tian Feng (Physical Education College of Zhengzhou University), China
Yuanyuan Gao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), USA
Fang Bin Guo (Liverpool John Moores University), UK
Meher  S. Khan (University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson-Main Line Health Hospitals), USA
Muhammad Jawad Khan (SMME - National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)), Pakistan
Tae-eun Kim Kim (University of South-Eastern Norway - USN), Norway
Krzysztof Laudanski (Penn Institute of Immunology & Penn Center for Global Health), USA
Luca Longo (Technological University), Ireland
Roland Iosif Moraru (University of Petrosani), Romania
Zartasha Mustansar (National University for Sciences and Technology), Pakistan
Noman Naseer (Air University), Pakistan
Hoang-Dung Nguyen (Can Tho University), Vietnam
Noriyuki Oka (Tokyo City University), Japan
Yafeng Pan Pan (Karolinska Institutet), Sweden
Rehan Zafar Paracha (National University for Sciences and Technology), Pakistan
Aleksandra Przegalinska (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
Risza Binti Rusli (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)), Malaysia
Muhammad Sajid (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)), Pakistan
Hendrik Santosa (University of Pittsburg), USA
Sofia Scataglini (University of Antwerp), Belgium
Sara Baber Sial (SMME - National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)), Pakistan
Redha Taiar (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne), France
Peter Thorvald (University of Skövde), Sweden
Jinhui Wang (Hangzhou Normal University), China
Dan Zhang (Tsinghua University), P. R. China


About the Track:

Cognitive ergonomics is the branch of ergonomics which primarily focus on the mental aspects, cognitive functions and neuro-cognitive processes that includes the interactions among the humans and other elements of a system. The AHFE Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology (ICEEP) conference examines the cognitive ergonomic aspects of a workplace to understand a working task and solve a problem, thus making human-system interaction compatible with human cognitive abilities and limitations at work. In an industrial environment, it includes optimal human-work parameters including mental workload, decision-making, skilled performance, human reliability, human-system design, human-computer interaction, work stress and training as these may relate to worker’s ability to properly construe the task, in order to avoid hazard, errors, misperception, frustration and mental work overload. This is very powerful design area, which can make or break a worker’s ability to understand and perform in a workplace and operational settings in order to optimize human well-being and system performance.

This conference aims that theoretical knowledge must contribute towards practical application of cognitive ergonomics including better design of processes, workplaces, systems, instructions, machines, tools and activities that communicate better to the worker how to achieve their goals in daily life and in a working environment in specific. Human brain requires optimum working environment to perform optimally because work performed in a state of fatigue, stress or overload may add limitations to our cognition, attention, perception, memory decision-making, learning and mental workload. With basic knowledge of Engineering Psychology and cognitive design principles, an engineer, researcher, designer or doctor can curtail unnecessary mental workload or overload and help individuals to carry out their tasks more efficiently and with less risks and errors. The specific goal of the conference is to elucidate and brainstorm the human working abilities and limitations at the same time in order to improve working conditions and human performance, as well as safety, health and to avoid human errors, risks, unnecessary load and mental stress.

This conference on Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology provides an opportunity for researchers , doctors, engineers, designers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a diverse domain of cognitive ergonomics, psychology, human system interaction and applications of cognitive engineering in everyday life.

With main focus is on how cognitive ergonomics employ the information and knowledge embryonic from neurocognitive psychology sciences become a part of our working environments and practices that encourage ideas sharing and discussion among participants about the main theme as well as related topics of this conference. This forum addresses the broad spectrum of modern ongoing research in cognitive ergonomics and the related technologies included but are not limited to those listed here:

• Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Cognitive Task Analysis
• Brain Computer Interface
• Industrial Ergonomics and Engineering
• Decision Making and Decision Support Systems
• Distributed Cognition systems
• Human Machine Interface
• Human Error and Error Prediction Techniques
• Human Centered Design and User-Centered Systems
• Control and Communication Systems
• Behavioral neuroscience and Neurophysiology
• Requirements Analysis and System Integration
• Human Factor Measures and Methods
• Task Analytic Methods and Job design
• Mental Workload and Overload
• Work, Stress and Psychophysics
• Safety, Risk and Human Reliability
• Biomedical engineering and Bio-signals Processing
• Socio-technical systems and Situation awareness
• Simulations, Training design and analysis
• Educational psychology and learning techniques
• Digital Image and Signal Processing
• Automation and Autonomous Systems
• Industrial aspects of Engineering psychology
• Mathematical Modelling of system and processes
• Human system Integration and interaction
• Systems neuroscience and Human-System Design
• Engineering Optimization and adaptive control systems
• Advances in Cognitive engineering
• Ergonomics of Information Systems
• Computer systems and digital technologies
• Neuro Engineering and neuroimaging
• Machine learning, deep learning and Human factors
• Neuro-robotics and Artificial Intelligence
• Human Management Systems
• Design and Industrial Manufacturing
• Neuroscience and Human learning behavior
• Emotional aspects of human interaction with systems
• Methods and tools for studying and supporting cognitive tasks
• Cognitive process of design
• Intelligent systems and applications
• Industrial Automation, Robotics and Human factors
• Case studies relevant to ergonomics and engineering psychology


Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Gianni Montagna (Lisbon School of Architecture), Portugal
Cristina Carvalho (CIAUD), Portugal

Board Members:
Luis Almeida (University of Minho), Portugal
Ana Cristina Broega (Universidade do Minho), Portugal
Giovanni Conti (Politecnico di Milano), Italy
Carlos Figueiredo (CIAUD / Lisbon School of Architecture), Portugal
Sandra Heffernan (MASSEY), New Zealand
Theresa Beco Lobo (School of Art Institute of Chicago), USA
Anne Marr (University of the Arts London), UK
Tamaki Mitsuno (Shinshu University), Japan
Carla Morais (Faculdade de Arquitectura), Portugal
Fernando Moreira da Silva (CIAUD), Portugal
Martina Motta (Politecnico di Milano), Italy
Delfina Gabriela Garrido Ramos (IPCA), Portugal
Maria Antonietta Sbordone (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"), Italy


About the Track:

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.


Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing
Scientific Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:
Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada

Board Members:
Amer Al-Rawas (SQU), Oman
Sergey Belov (IBM), Russia
Othmane Bouhali (TAMU), Qater
Henry Broodney (IBM), Israel
‪Sacit Cetiner (Idaho National Laboratory), USA
Paul Fechtelkotter (IBM), USA
Frida Fischer (University of Sao Paulo), Brazil
Shin’ichi Fukuzumi (NEC Corporation), Japan
Ravindra S. Goonetilleke (Khalifa University), UAE
Cláudio Henrique Grecco (Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear – IEN), Brazil
Nicole Jochems (RWTH-AACHEN), Germany
Santanu Koley (Budge Budge Institute of Technology), India
Gino Lim (UH), USA
David Long (VITECHCORP), USA
Masaaki Mochimaru (AIST), Japan
Chris O'Connor (IBM), USA
Cezary Orłowski (Technical University of Gdansk), Poland
Hamid Parsaei (Texas A&M University, Qatar), Qatar
Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Germany
Sreekanth Ramakrishnan (IBM), USA
Jose San Martin Lopez (VA-Center for Applied Systems Engineering), Spain
Krzysztof Santarek (Politechnika Warszawska), Poland
Mohd Shahir Liew (PETRONAS), Malaysia
Javed Anjum Sheikh (University of Sialkot), Pakistan
Duncan Speight (IBM), UK
Martin Stenkilde (KANON), Sweden
Teodor Winkler (POLSL), Poland
Hazel Woodcock (IBM), UK
Bin Xue (National University of Defense Technology), China


About the Track:

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:

  • Responsibility:Who should lead the way to introduction of AI in the process, and what is the long term strategic nature of decisions about AI.

  • Depth of integration: AI can be used partially to automate a few tasks, or it can be used to automate a full process. AI integration depends on the goals, priorities, resources and values of where AI can contribute to people in process and innovation.

  • People: There is a growing risk that firms will become over-reliant on technology and ignore the value of experience and humans. There is a need to think about how to invest in staff to maximize their potential with technology in a harmonious and enabling role.

  • Training: As AISC becomes more integrated in our daily lives, soft skills - such as sensitivity, creativity, visual detection and verbal reasoning, communication, empathy and spontaneity - may become increasingly desirable. Researchers need to make the most of the interplay between personal and Artificial Intelligence.

  • 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.

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


    Artificial Intelligence:

    • 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


    Kansei Engineering
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Mitsuo Nagamachi (Hiroshima University (Retired-Emeritus)), Japan
    Shigekazu Ishihara (Hiroshima International University), Japan

    Board Members:
    Anitawati Mohdo Lokman (Universiti Technologi Mara), Malaysia
    Yukihiro Matsubara (Hiroshima City University), Japan
    Toshio Tsuchiya (Simonoseki City University), Japan


    About the Track:

    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

    Accessibility and Assistive Technology
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Matteo Zallio (University of Cambridge), UK

    Board Members:
    Carlos Aceves-González (University of Guadalajara), Mexico
    Hanan A. Alnizami (Clemson University), USA
    Mario Buono (Università degli studi della campania), Italy
    Wolfgang Friesdorf (TU-BERLIN), Germany
    Shin’ichi Fukuzumi (NEC Corporation), Japan
    Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven), Belgium
    Sue Hignett (Loughborough University), UK
    Takumi Ohashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan
    Maria Lucia Okimoto (Federal University of Paraná), Brazil
    Therese Willkomm (University of New Hampshire), USA


    About the Track:

    The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Accessibility and Assistive Technology (HFAAT) promotes the interaction between industry and academia by exchanging theories and practices on accessibility and assistive technology. Assistive technology can empower humans to live a fulfilled life, interacting with each other, and feel satisfied by accessing products, services, and environments.

    The ever-changing relationship between humans and technology is constantly impacted by accessibility. Those individuals with physical or cognitive impairments, older adults, or simply people with different skills or cultural background can benefit from accessible products, services, and environments. With this regard, contemporary technology has transformed peoples' daily living into a journey towards ability instead of disability. Assistive technology assessment focuses on the examination of problems in designing and providing assistive devices and services to individuals with disabilities or impairment, to assist mobility, communication, positioning, environmental control, and daily living.

    This conference track addresses a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical topics related to accessibility and assistive technology. 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, their access, acceptance, effectiveness, and efficiency for all humans.

    Our core values are devoted to guaranteeing people-centeredness, inclusiveness, interdisciplinarity, and participation from industry and academia.

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


    • Evaluation, Use, and Access to Assistive Technology:
      • Accessibility of Assistive Technology
      • Guidelines for Using Assistive Technology
      • Functional and Informational Requirements
      • Psychosocial and Human Factors (fear, stress, rejection, etc.)
      • New Frontiers Concerning Assistive Technology
      • Assistive Services

      • Assistive Technology Types:
        • Assistive Technology for Deafness and Hearing Impairments
        • Assistive Technology for Visual and Dual-Sensory Impairments
        • Assistive Technology for Mobility, Seating, and Positioning
        • Assistive Technology for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
        • Assistive Technology for physical and virtual environments

      • Assistive Technology for Daily Living:
        • Physical: Speech, Dexterity, Manipulation, Mobility, Strength, and Endurance
        • Sensory: Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste and smell, Balance
        • Cognitive: Intellect, Memory, Language and literacy, and Neurodiversity


    Advanced Production Management and Process Control
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Beata Mrugalska (Poznan University of Technology), Poland

    Board Members:
    Salvador Ávila Filho (Federal University of Bahia), Brazil
    Murray Gibson (Saturn Ergonomics Consulting), USA
    Akihiko Goto (Osaka Sangyo University), Japan
    Adam Hamrol (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Aidé Aracely Maldonado Macias (Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez), Mexico
    Jerry Poh Kiat Ng (Multimedia University), Malaysia
    Jörg Niemann (University of Applied Sciences), Germany
    Tomoko Ota (Chuo Business Group), Japan
    Edgar Ramos (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)), Peru
    Carlos Raymundo (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)), Peru
    Silvio Simani (University of Ferrara), Italy
    Yusuf Tansel İÇ (Başkent Üniversitesi), Turkey
    Benedict Wohlers (Fraunhofer IEM), Germany
    Magdalena Wyrwicka (Poznan University of Technology), Poland


    About the Track:

    The AHFE International Conference on Advanced Production Management and Process Control (APMPC) promotes the exchange of ideas and developments in production, sustainability, life-cycle, innovation, development, fault-diagnostics and control systems. It addresses a spectrum of theoretical and practical topics. It provides an excellent forum of exploring frontiers between researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. It offers the possibility of discussing research results, innovative applications and future directions.

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

    • Production Management:
      • Planning, Scheduling and Control
      • Project Management
      • Production System Organization
      • Process Optimization
      • Process and Product Design
      • Production Standards and Certification
      • Quality Control
      • Materials and Inventory Management
      • Logistics and Supply Chain
      • Maintenance Systems
      • Reliability and Risk Assessment
      • Total Quality Management
    • Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management:
      • Sustainable Business Development
      • Sustainable Manufacturing (energy, water, materials and chemicals)
      • Eco-design
      • Reuse, Remanufacturing, and Recycling
      • Sustainable Supply Chain
      • Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing
      • Total Ownership Cost
      • Life Cycle Excellence
      • Product Life Cycle Management
    • Innovation and Development in Engineering and Manufacturing :
      • Industrial Automation
      • Smart Production
      • Bio-manufacturing
      • Investments in Production Systems
      • Production Competition and Relationship
      • Operations Research
      • Operator Training
      • Control-room Operators
      • Real-time Performance Assessment
    • Fault diagnostics and Intelligent Control Systems:
      • Safety-critical Systems
      • Process Supervision
      • Decision Support Systems
      • Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics
      • Reliability and Safety Assessment
      • Process Measurements and Devices
      • Modeling of Processes and Systems
      • Linear and Non-linear Control System Design
      • Predictive Control
      • Robust and Adaptive Control
      • Fault Tolerant Control


    Human Factors in Aging and Special Needs
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada

    Board Members:
    Terra Arnason ( Saskatchewan Health Authority), Canada
    Lisa Elliott ( School of Humanities and Social Sciences), USA
    V. Vijaya Lakshmi (PJTSAU), India
    Nancy Lightner (Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc. (ERPi)), USA
    Gianni Montagna (Lisbon School of Architecture), Portugal
    Parag Patil (All India Institude of Medical Sciences), India
    Esteban Peña-Pitarch (EPSEM(UPC)), Spain
    Micaela Porta (State Cagliari University), Italy
    Pradip Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), India
    Sofia Scataglini (University of Antwerp), Belgium
    Patrick Seitzinger (University of Saskatchewan; University of British Columbia), Canada
    Erik Vantomme (University of Saskatchewan), Canada
    Xiaoqun Yu ( Human Factors and Ergonomics Lab), Korea
    Matteo Zallio (University of Cambridge), UK


    About the Track:

    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


    Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Massimo Di Nicolantonio (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    Emilio Rossi (University of Lincoln), UK

    Board Members:
    Paola Barcarolo (University of Udine), Italy
    Michele Calvano (National Research Council), Italy
    Alessio D'Onofrio (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    Jayme Keist (Pennsylvania State University), USA
    Fausto Orsi Medola (São Paulo State University), Brazil
    Roger Narayan (North Carolina State University), USA
    Prahalad Rao (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USA
    Frode Eika Sandnes (Oslo Metropolitan University), Norway
    Valentino Sangiorgio (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    Álvaro Sampaio (University of Minho), Portugal


    About the Track:

    Recent digital modeling systems and additive manufacturing technologies have produced remarkable changes and improvements in the way people design and fabricate objects and products, both in formal and in informal environments. Using networked technologies, ubiquitous computing, new materials and hybrid production systems, they are changing the processes of conception, modeling and production of products and systems of products, becoming a powerful tool for makers and professionals and, at the same time, becoming democratic, less expensive and more accessible by a wide range of new kind end-users to try new forms of distributed craftsmanship. Digital Modeling Systems (DMSs) are empowered systems of tangible and intangible tools that, using a large number of technologies such as ICTs, virtual environments, cloud computing, user interfaces, connected tools and hybrid systems, are used to conceive, model, analyze, virtualize, simulate and present solutions. Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to all production processes made with 3D printers, rapid prototyping systems, methods for remote fabrication, etc., which use raw materials to create three-dimensional objects; everyday, fabricated solutions are become pervasive in many environments, decreasing in costs and in time the entire manufacturing processes. The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Digital Modeling Systems and Additive Manufacturing is a leading forum focused on cutting edge design and manufacturing processes; it welcomes papers that cover articles, case studies and multidisciplinary studies specifically focused on ergonomics research, design applications, engineering processes, experimental purposes and theoretical methods applied the themes of Digital Modeling Systems and Additive Manufacturing, and their cross-sectorial convergences.

    Aims of the Affiliated Conference
    The proposed AHFE Affiliated Conference on Digital Modeling Systems and Additive Manufacturing is conceived as a forum to bring together researchers, experts, professionals and stakeholders from various disciplines working in these three main areas, and in their specific domains. The aim is to explore and contribute to the research challenges with theoretical studies, experimental researches and best practices in the applications of Human Factors and Ergonomics on Digital Modeling Systems and Additive Manufacturing, and their cross-sectorial applications in any context: tangible and/or intangible, industrial and/or non-industrial, formal and/or informal. The long-term goal is to gather a community of researchers and establish a leading forum for research dissemination in the area..

    Topics Covered:
    Systems and Additive Manufacturing include, but are not limited to those listed here:

    • Digital Modeling Systems (DMSs):
      • Product-Service Systems for modeling and simulation.
      • Human-Computer Interaction in modeling-related activities.
      • User interfaces for designing manufacturable objects.
      • Development of modeling tools and/or software.
      • Software use and applications in 3D modeling.
      • Geometric, mathematic and parametric modeling tools.
      • Representation and visualization of physically realizable objects.
      • Use and development of networks, services, systems and ICTs technologies in and for modeling-related activities.
      • Simulation of physically realizable objects (including AR/VR).
      • Trans-disciplinary applications and hybrid tools in Digital Modeling Systems
    • Additive Manufacturing (AM):
      • New materials for fabrication.
      • Advances in prototyping technologies and materials.
      • Destructive and non-destructive trials on printed products.
      • Sustainability issues and applications for new printable material.
      • New product development using 3D printing.
      • Mathematical-mechanical models for new technologies and materials.
      • Forms of productions in everyday scenarios.
      • Industrial applications of new manufacturing technologies.
      • Advanced products and services created using new manufacturing technologies.
      • Trans-disciplinary applications in Additive Manufacturing.
    • Cross-Sectorial Issues:
      • DMSs and AM in new circular economies.
      • DMSs and AM in Industry 4.0.
      • Sustainable models for producing, selling and delivering products (i.e. Do-It-Yourself, Creative Communities, etc.).
      • Socio-ethical challenges for DMSs and AM.
      • DMSs and AM in and for emerging and developing countries.
      • DMSs and AM for bio-engineering and medical applications.
      DMSs and AM in extreme environments (including aerospace, zero-g applications, maritime, military, etc.).
      • DMSs and AM for archeological, historical and conservative applications.
      • DMSs and AM in SMEs, startups and innovative companies.
      • Future trends and promising scenarios for DMSs and AM.


    Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Cliff (Sungsoo) Shin (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), USA
    Yong-Gyun Ghim (University of Cincinnati), USA

    Board Members:
    Y. M. (Christina) Choi (Georgia Institute of Technology), USA
    KwangMyung Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Korea
    Miso Kim (Northeastern University ), USA
    YoungAe Kim (University of South Dakota), USA
    Jiwon Park (University of Texas at Austin), USA
    Scott Shim (University of Notre Dame), USA


    About the Track:

    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)


    Wearable Technologies
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Jesslyn Alekseyev (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), USA
    Christianne Falcão (UnFBV), Brazil

    Board Members:
    Akram Alomainy (Queen Mary University of London), UK
    Waseem Asghar (Florida Atlantic University), USA
    Klaus Bengler (Technical University Munich), Germany
    Erik Brolin (University of Skövde), Sweden
    Wolfgang Friesdorf (TU-BERLIN), Germany
    Lars Fritzsche (IMK-Automotive), Germany
    Susanne Frohriep (Grammer AG), Germany
    Shin’ichi Fukuzumi (NEC Corporation), Japan
    Ben Goldberg (US Army), USA
    Sue Hignett (Loughborough University), UK
    Dan Högberg (University of Skövde), Sweden
    Wim Huiskamp (TNO), Netherlands
    Wonil Hwang (SSU), S. Korea
    Muhammad Ismail (Texas A&M University, Qatar), Qatar
    Yong Gu Ji (Yonsei University), Korea
    Bernard C. Jiang (Tawan University of Science and Technology), Taiwan
    Ger Joyce (University of Hertfordshire), UK
    Chee Weng Khong (Multimedia University), Malaysia
    Zhizhong Li (TSINGHUA), PR China
    Nelson Matias (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)), Brazil
    Matt Reed (University of Michigan), USA
    Valerie Rice (Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Emilio Rossi (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    Robert Sottilare (US Army), USA
    Michael Spitzhirn (imk automotive), Germany
    Masood ur Rehman (University of Bedfordshire), UK
    Alvin Yeo (UNIMAS), Malaysia
    Wei Zhang (Tsinghua University), PR China


    About the Track:

    Wearable technology is a category of technology devices that can be worn by a consumer (called wearable gadgets) and often include tracking information related to health and fitness. Other wearable tech gadgets include devices that have small motion sensors to take photos and sync with your mobile devices.

    Wearable devices have several applications to support domains ranging from personal productivity, health and medical, entertainment and gaming, to security and safety critical systems. The human aspects of wearable technologies are often neglected. By integrating user center practices practitioners can achieve optimized wearable experience and solutions for improving the user acceptance, satisfaction and engagement for novel applications. This track provides researchers and practitioners a forum to share research and best practices in the applications of human factors and ergonomics to wearable technologies and integration of wearability principles identified by Motti and Caine (2014) which are: Aesthetics, Affordance, Comfort, Contextual-awareness, Customization, Ease of Use, Ergonomy, Intuitiveness, Obtrusiveness, Overload, Privacy, Reliability, Responsiveness, Satisfaction, Satisfaction, Subtlety, User friendliness and Wearability.

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

    • User-centered Design Principles in Wearable technologies
    • Principles for Wearability
    • User Engagement
    • Regulatory and Policy Aspects
    • Data Collections and Analysis
    • Wearable Technology Usage
    • Wearable Computing
    • Innovations in Wearable Technologies and Applications
    • Smart clothing and Implantables
    • Trends and Future Technologies


    Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Ronald Boring (Idaho National Laboratory), USA

    Board Members:
    Harold Blackman (Boise State University), USA
    Y. J. (James) Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), USA
    Salvador Filho (Federal University of Bahia), Brazil
    David Gertman (Independent Consultant), USA
    Katrina Groth (Sandia National Laboratories), USA
    Xuhong He (Lloyd's Register Consulting), Sweden
    Yochan Kim (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Korea
    Barry Kirwan (EuroControl), France
    Karin Laumann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Norway
    Zhizhong Li (Tsinghua University), China
    Peng Liu (Tianjin University), China
    Robert McDonald (Institute for Energy Technology), Norway
    Ron McLeod (Independent Consultant), UK
    Myriam Merad (French National Centre for Scientific Research), France
    Naj Meshkati (University of Southern California), USA
    Aino Obenius-Mowitz (Swedish Radiation Safety Authority), Sweden
    Jinkyun Park (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Korea
    Manikam Pillay (RESMEERTS), Australia
    Alice Salway (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission), Canada
    Carol Smidts (Ohio State University), USA
    Oliver Straeter (Universität Kassel), Germany
    Patricia Trbovich (University of Toronto), Canada
    Matt Weinger (Vanderbilt University), USA
    April Whaley (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), USA
    David Yacht (Southwest Airlines), USA


    About the Track:

    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.




    Human Factors in Communication of Design


    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Amic G. Ho (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), Hong Kong

    Communication of Design Board Members:
    Seung Hyun Cha (KAIST), Korea
    Edward Hung (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), Hong Kong
    Kyle Kim (Hongik University), Korea
    Daniel Raposo (CIAUD), Portugal
    Kyu Ha Shim (Carnegie Mellon University), USA
    Jun Bum Shin (Oregon State University), USA
    Michael Siu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Hong Kong
    Liang Tan (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts,), China
    Xiang Yang Xin (City University of Macau), China
    Jesvin Yeo (Nanyang Technological University), Singapore
    David Yip (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Hong Kong
    Choi Joung Yun  (State University of New York ), USA


    About the Human Factors in Communication of Design Conference:

    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


    Virtual Environments and Game Design
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Jesslyn Alekseyev (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), USA
    Christianne Falcão (UnFBV), Brazil

    Board Members:
    Wonil Hwang (SSU), S. Korea
    Yong Gu Ji (Yonsei University), Korea
    Bernard C. Jiang (Tawan University of Science and Technology), Taiwan
    Ger Joyce (University of Hertfordshire), UK
    Chee Weng Khong (Multimedia University), Malaysia
    Zhizhong Li (Tsinghua University), PR China
    Nelson Matias (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)), Brazil
    Delfina Gabriela Ramos (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave. and Algoritmi Centre), Portugal
    Valerie Rice (Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Nuno F. Rodrigues (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave. and Algoritmi Centre), Portugal
    Emilio Rossi (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    João Vilaça (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave and University of Minho), Portugal

    About the Track:

    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.


    Design for Inclusion
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Pepetto Di Bucchianico (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy

    Board Members:
    Avril Accolla ( Tongji University), China
    Carlos Aceves Gonzales ( University of Guadalahara), Mexico
    Dena Al Thani (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Qatar
    Daniele Busciantella Ricci ( University of Florence), Italy
    Rama Gheerawo ( Royal College of Art), UK
    Ninela Ivanova ( Royal College of Art), UK
    Keiji Kawahara ( Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences), Japan
    Pete Kercher ( EIDD Design for All Europe), Italy
    Tsai Lu Liu ( NC State College of Design), USA
    Nuno Martins (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave), Portugal
    Giuseppe Mincolelli ( University of Ferrara), Italy
    Farnaz Nickpour ( University of Liverpool), UK
    Janice Rieger ( Queensland University of Technology), Australia
    Matteo Zallio (University of Cambridge), UK

    About the Track:

    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.


    Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Lucas Paletta (DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies), Austria
    Hasan Ayaz (Drexel University), USA

    Board Members:
    Hanan A. Alnizami (Clemson University), USA
    Carryl Baldwin (George Mason University), USA
    Othmane Bouhali (TAMU), Qater
    Henry Broodney (IBM), Israel
    Frederic Dehais (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace), France
    Klaus Gramann (Technische Universität Berlin), Germany
    Ryan McKendrick (Northrop Grumman Aerospace), USA
    Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Germany
    Sreekanth Ramakrishnan (IBM), USA
    Duncan Speight (IBM), UK
    Martin Stenkilde (KANON), Sweden
    Ari Visa (Tampere University of Technology), Finland
    Tomas Ward (National University of Ireland), Ireland
    Matthias Ziegler (Lockheed Martin), USA

    About the Track:

    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


    Human Factors and Simulation
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Julia Wright (USARMY CCDC ARL), USA
    Daniel Barber (SoarTech), USA

    Board Members:
    Anthony Baker (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Daniel Barber (SoarTech, Inc.), USA
    Ralph Brewer, II (DEVCOM US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Annie Chang ( Claremont Graduate University),  USA
    Maartje Hidalgo (University of Central Florida), USA
    Niav Hughes (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), USA
    Shan Lakhmani (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Jinchao Lin (University of Central Florida), USA
    Debra Patton (U.S. Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Brandon Perelman (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Heather Pfeiffer (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Shiva Pourfalatoun (Colorado State University), USA
    Sarah Sun (Michigan Technological University), USA
    Ryan Wohleber (Soar Technology, Inc.), USA
    Julia Wright (U.S. Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Zining Yang (Claremont Graduate University), USA
    Valarie Yerdon (Aptima, Inc.),  USA
    Lan Zhang (Michigan Technological University), USA

    About the Track:

    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


    Human Factors in Management and Leadership
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Salman Nazir (University of South-Eastern Norway), Norway

    Board Members:
    Neeta Baporikar (NUST), India
    Tibor Barath (Hungarian-Netherlands School), Hungary
    Constance Barsky (Learning by redesign), USA
    Roman Batko (Jagiellonian University), Poland
    Karine Berthelot-Guiet (Sorbonne University), France
    Rebecca DeCoster (BRUNEL), UK
    Stanislaw Glazek (FUW), Poland
    Wiesław Grudzewski (Warsaw School Of Economics), Poland
    Irena Hejduk (Wydział Zarządzania), Poland
    Tobias Kesting (Fh-Muenster), Germany
    Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Sweden
    Yoshiki B. Kurata  (Technological Institute of the Philippines), Philippines
    Keisuke Makino (KYOTO), Japan
    Attila Meszaros (Szechenyi Istvan University), Hungary
    Ewa Nowak (Jagiellonian University), Poland
    Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Germany
    Manikam Pillay (RESMEERTS), Australia
    Andrzej Rucinski (EMORY), USA
    Anna Szopa (Jagiellonian University), Poland
    Pedro Vilarinho (COTEC), Portugal
    Teodor Winkler (POLSL), Poland

    About the Track:

    The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Management and Leadership is concerned with creating people-centric systems and the effective practices to bring to managers and executives useful insights into the latest leadership and management research as well as the human performance development. Understanding how workplaces can be designed with people in mind should be of great interest to organizations. HFML focuses on those leadership roles, which support the organizational learning, knowledge management, overall safety, and innovation.

    The conference aims to share and transfer not just knowledge, but leadership and management science that is of real value in practical terms; value that can help leaders ensure their organizations stay ahead of the competition through continued innovation, strong competitive advantage, and inspired leadership. There are some general issues which have influence on the effectiveness and competitiveness of organizations (firms and institutions) across various sectors which HFML would like to inspire their discussion and evolution in the following aspects:

    1. Role of learning: organizational development, and the role of leadership in supporting learning in organizations, this includes intelligent organization and learning organization.
    2. Organizational complexity: Our world and also the organizations in it show increasing complexity and fast changes. What competences make the leaders succeed and compete with these issues? How can leaders govern complex systems?
    3. Trust and control in different organization: What is the role of trust and control in leading successful organizations? How much the way of thinking of leaders depends on organizational or social culture, or the characteristics of different sectors?
    4. Knowledge management: What are the features of knowledge production, knowledge sharing, and utilization of knowledge? What kind of leadership is needed by the knowledge workers?
    5. Safety leadership: The new paradigm of safety (which is based on systems thinking) calls the need to accommodate this reality in the nature of safety leadership, its development and assessment. Thus, what are the limitations of existing safety leadership theories? What leadership behaviors are needed in order to achieved the new view of safety? How to assess safety leadership contribution in socio-technical systems?

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

    • High performing working place
    • Design thinking in leadership
    • Transformational leadership
    • Social-organizational work environment
    • Creative Methods and Tools
    • Management and governance issues
    • Human performance research
    • Socio-technical approach to management and governance
    • Coordination, communication and collaboration issues
    • Management Strategies
    • Performance management
    • Human resource management
    • Safety Leadership
    • Risk management


    Human Factors in Cybersecurity
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Abbas Moallem (San Jose State University), USA

    Board Members:
    Shilpi Agarwal (DataEthics4Allᵀᴹ Foundation), USA
    Ahmed Banafa (San Jose State University), USA
    Oliver Buckley (University of East Anglia), UK
    Prathamesh Churi (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)), India
    Grit Denker (SRI International), USA
    Varun Dutt (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi), India
    Frank Greitzer (PsyberAnalytix LLC), USA
    Stewart Kowalski (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)), Norway
    Philip Morgan (Cardiff University), UK
    Denise Nicholson (SoarTech, Inc.), USA
    Ehsan Nowroozi (Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi), Turkey
    Andrew Reeves (The University of Adelaide), Australia
    Aryn Pyke (Army Cyber Institute), USA
    Jeremiah Still (Old Dominion University), USA
    Elizabeth Whitaker (GTRI), USA

    About the Track:

    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.

    Areas of interest include but are not limited to, those listed below.


    Cybersecurity
    • Cyber Economics
    • Cyber-Physical Systems Security
    • Cybersecurity Forensics
    • Cybersecurity Competitions
    • Cybersecurity Incident Response
    • Cybersecurity Risk Factors
    • Distributed Environment for Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making
    • Key Insights into the Depth and Breadth of Cyber Security Threats
    • Cyber Security Index
    • Process Control Systems (PCS) Security

    Human Factors
    • Human Error and Awareness
    • Human Factors in Information Security Management
    • Role of Human Error in Successful Security Attacks
    • Threats of Inadvertent Human Error by Insider Mistakes
    • Social, Economic, and Behavioral Aspects of Cyberspace
    • Cyber Hygiene
    • Behavior-based cybersecurity
    • Mitigation of social engineering attacks
    • Communication of security risks to end-users
    • Human-Centered design and security

    Privacy and Trust
    • Big data impact on user privacy
    • Data Privacy Technologies
    • User acceptance of security and privacy technologies
    • Trust frameworks
    • Web technologies
    • Mobile computing
    • Cloud computing
    • Enterprise computing
    • Peer-to-peer networking
    • Honeypots
    • Insecure Web Services
    • VR/AR systems
    • Automated Driving

    Internet of Things
    • Blockchains, distributed ledgers, and gossip protocols
    • SCADA: Supervisory control and data acquisition
    • Ubiquitous computing
    • Home Security and Usability
    Training And Awareness
    • Cybersecurity Training
    • Gaming
    • Training and Awareness Evaluation
    • Threat Assessment

    Ethics
    • Personal privacy
    • Access right
    • Harmful actions
    • Privacy harms
    • Cyber security resource allocation
    • Transparency and disclosure • Ethnic bias in face recognition accuracy

    Assessment and Evaluation
    • Enterprise Level Security Metrics and Usability
    • Cyber Analytics Behavior and Resilience

    Surveillance and Social Media
    • Tracking
    • Location Tracking
    • Attacks against elections
    • Privacy by design
    • Fake news
    • Bots in social networks
    • Advances in Laws and Regulations
    • Privacy Laws
    • Cyberwarfare
    • Money laundering and black markets



    Human Factors and Systems Interaction
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Isabel L. Nunes (NOVA University of Lisbon), Portugal

    Board Members:
    Amy Alexander (MIT), USA
    Musaed Alzeid Alnaser (Kuwait University), Kuwait
    Pedro Arezes (UMinho), Portugal
    Alain Bernard (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), France
    Nina Berry (Sandia National Laboratories), USA
    Francesco Biondi (Jaguar Land Rover / University of Warwick), UK
    James P. Bliss (ODU), USA
    Olga Burukina (University of Vaasa/The Russian State University for the Humanities), Finland/Russia
    Filipa Carvalho (Faculdade Motricidade Humana), Portugal
    Denis Coelho (Universidade da Beira Interior), Portugal
    Shuchisnigdha Deb (Mississippi State University), USA
    Frank Flemisch (Fraunhofer), Germany
    Kazuo Hatakeyama (UNIOCIESC), Brazil
    Sven Hinrichsen (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo), Germany
    Tim Jeske (ifaa - Institute of Applied Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics), Germany
    Christopher Lowe (Liv Systems), UK
    Yuanyao Lu (North China University of Technology), China
    Ravi Mahamuni (Tata Consultancy Services Limited), India
    Pamela McCauley ( University of Central Florida), USA
    Jorge Luis Pérez Médina (Universidad de Las Américas - Quito), Ecuador
    Bonnie Novak (OASD (R&E)), USA
    Maria Papanikou (University of Greenwich), UK
    Alexandra B. Proaps (Old Dominion University), USA
    William Prugh (Dynology Corporation), USA
    Claudia Quintao (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal
    Adriano Bernardo Renzi (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Brazil
    Yves Rybarczyk (Dalarna University, Falun), Sweden
    Mohammed-Aminu Sanda (University of Ghana/Lulea University of Technology), Ghana/Sweden
    Michael W. Sawyer (Fort Hill Group), USA
    Mario Simoes-Marques (CINAV), Portugal 
    Vesna Spasojevic Brkic (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade), Serbia
    Aysen Taylor (Automation and Human Factors LLC.), USA
    Paolo Trucco ( Politecnico di Milano), Italy
    Ricardo Vigário (NOVA University of Lisboa), Portugal  
    Marc-André Weber (  University of Applied Sciences Kiel), Germany

    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.).

    Human Factors, Business Management and Society
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Vesa Salminen (Häme University of Applied Sciences), Finland

    Board Members:
    Tibor Barath (Aquitas), Hungary
    Andrea Bikfalvi (UDG), Spain
    Javier Bilbao (EHU), Spain
    Yoon Chang (Pratt Institute), South Korea
    Petri Helo (University of Vaasa), Finland
    Natali V. Ivanova (St. Petersburg State Transport University), Russia
    Henrijs Kalkis (University of Latvia), Latvia
    Jussi Kantola (University of Turku), Finland
    Charalampos Makatsoris (BRUNEL), UK
    Evangelos Markopoulos (Hult International Business School), Greece
    Peter  Odrakiewicz (Poznan University), Poland
    Tero Reunanen (Turku University of Applied Sciences), Finland
    Heikki Ruohomaa (Häme University of Applied Sciences), Finland
    Aviv Segev (KAIST), South Korea
    Oliver Tian (Asia Pacific Assistive Robotics Association), Singapore
    Kimmo Vänni (Häme University of Applied Sciences), Finland

    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


    Human Factors in Robots, Drones and Unmanned Systems
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Carlos Raymundo (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas), Peru

    Board Members:
    Paulo Bonato (PARTNERS), USA
    Ralph Brewer (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Gloria Calhoun (Air Force Research Laboratory), USA
    Reece Clothier (RMIT), Australia
    Nancy Cooke (Arizona State Univ), USA
    Linda Elliott (DEVCOM Data Analysis Center), USA
    Katia Estabridis (US Navy), USA
    Daniel Ferris (UMICH), USA
    Janusz Fraczek (PW), Poland
    Joseph W. Geeseman (Naval Air Training (CNATRA) - N7P), USA
    Jonathan Gratch (Univ. of Southern California), USA
    Jesus Hechavarria (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil - UCSG), Ecuador
    Susan Hill (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Eric Holder (U.S. Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Ming Hou (DRDC-RDDC), Canada
    Lixiao Huang (Arizona State University), USA
    Chris Johnson (GLASGOW), UK
    Michael LaFiandra (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Shan Lakhmani (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Joseph Lyons (US Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Kelly Neville (The MITRE Corporation), USA
    Jacob N. Norris (SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific), USA
    Jose L. Pons (CSIC), Spain
    Carlos Raymundo (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas SAC), Peru
    Charlene Stokes (The MITRE Corporation), USA
    Peter Stütz (Bundeswehr University Munich), Germany
    Redha Taiar (Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne), France
    Jeffrey Thomas (US Army), USA
    Anna Trujillo (NASA Langley Research Center), USA
    Anthony Tvaryanas (US AIRFORCE), USA
    Herman Van der Kooij (UTWENTE), The Netherlands
    Dennis Vincenzi (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), USA
    Eric Vorm (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), USA
    Harald Widlroither (University of Stuttgart), Germany
    Huiyu  Zhou (Queen’s University Belfast), UK

    About the Track:

    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:

    • Automation issues and robotics
    • Consequences of degraded reliability of automated unmanned functions for performance of the automated task and of concurrent tasks
    • Perceptual and cognitive issues in unmanned systems and robotics
    • Role of augmented reality displays or synthetic vision systems to successfully compensate for the degraded visual imagery provided by onboard sensors
    • Multimodal display technology applications to compensate for the dearth of sensory information available to a unmanned vehicle operator
    • Extent to which displays and controls can be standardized across unmanned systems?
    • Predictable autonomous behavior for unmanned system following a loss of communications


    Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada

    Board Members:
    Clare Dallat (Outdoor Education Group), Australia
    Chi-Wen Lung (Asia University), Taiwan
    Roman Maciej Kalina (OP), Poland
    Damian Morgan (Federation Business School), Australia
    Timothy Neville (USC), Australia
    Eduardo Salas (Rice University), USA
    Daniel Simmons (CCD), UK
    Scott Talpey (Federation University), Australia
    Guy Walker (Heriot Watt University), UK
    Patrick Waterson (Loughborough University), UK

    About the Track:

    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.

    Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Robert McDonald (Institute for Energy Technology), Norway
    Ron Boring (Idaho National Laboratory), USA

    Board Members:
    Saif Al Rawahi (PDO), Oman
    Ronald Boring (INL), USA
    Paulo Carvalho (Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear), Brazil
    Sacit Cetiner (ORNL), USA
    David Desaulniers (NRC), USA
    Gino Lim (UH), USA
    Peng Liu (Tianjin University), China
    Esau Perez (CHEVRON), USA
    Lauren Reinerman-Jones (University of Alabama), USA
    Kristiina Söderholm (FORTUM), Finland


    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

    Training, Education, and Learning Sciences
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Salman Nazir (University of South-Eastern Norway), Norway

    Board Members:
    Sam Abramovich (University at Buffalo), USA
    Dena Al Thani (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Qatar
    Tibor Barath (University of Szeged), Hungary
    Joana Bartnicka (The Silesian Technical University), Poland
    Jo Elliott (Penn State Erie- The Behrend College), USA
    Michael Freeman (INSEAD), USA
    Amna Javed (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Japan
    Anders Gronstedt (Gronstedtgroup), USA
    Steven Mallam (University College of Southeast Norway), Norway
    Bilal Mansoor (Texas A&M University at Qatar), Qatar
    Chris McClernon (USAF Academy), USA
    Kevin Moore (UT), USA
    Kara Orvis (APTIMA), USA
    Bob Pokorny (Intelligent Automation), USA
    Roy D. Roper (NASA Langley Research Center), USA
    Demetrios Sampson (ITI), Greece
    Jennifer Smith (The Memorial University of Newfoundland,), Canada
    Jon Lars Syversen (Hucon Global AS), Norway

    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
    Software and Systems Engineering
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Paul Fechtelkotter (IBM), USA

    Board Members:
    Ahmed Al-Rawas (Sultan Qaboos University), Oman
    Sergey Belov (IBM), Russia
    Othmane Bouhali (Texas A&M University at Qatar), Qater
    Henry Broodney (IBM), Israel
    ‪Sacit Cetiner (Idaho National Laboratory), USA
    Paul Fechtelkotter (IBM), USA
    Frida Fischer (University of Sao Paulo), Brazil
    Shin’ichi Fukuzumi (NEC Corporation), Japan
    Cláudio Henrique Grecco (Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear – IEN), Brazil
    Nicole Jochems (RWTH-AACHEN), Germany
    Gino Lim (UH), USA
    David Long (VITECHCORP), USA
    Masaaki Mochimaru (AIST), Japan
    Chris O'Connor (IBM), USA
    Cezary Orłowski (Technical University of Gdansk), Poland
    Hamid Parsaei (Texas A&M University, Qatar), Qatar
    Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Germany
    Sreekanth Ramakrishnan (IBM), USA
    Jose San Martin Lopez (VA-Center for Applied Systems Engineering), Spain
    Krzysztof Santarek (Warsaw University of Technology), Poland
    Mohd Shahir Liew (PETRONAS), Malaysia
    Duncan Speight (IBM), UK
    Martin Stenkilde (KANON), Sweden
    Teodor Winkler (POLSL), Poland
    Hazel Woodcock (IBM), UK

    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

    The Human Side of Service Engineering
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Christine Leitner (Centre for Economics and Public Administration), UK
    Jens Neuhüttler (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO)), Germany
    Clara Bassano (University of Salerno), Italy
    Debra Satterfield (CSU Long Beach), USA

    Board Members:
    Troy Abel (Think Company, Philadelphia ), USA
    Alessandra Amendola (University of Salerno ), Italy
    Laura Anderson (IBM), USA
    Smedlund Anssi (University of Tampere), Finland
    Santokh Badesha (Xerox), USA
    Freimut Bodendorf (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany
    Javier Busquets (ESADE), Spain
    Wojciech Cellary (WSB University in Poznan ), Poland
    Bo Edvardsson (University Karlstad), Sweden
    Michael Ehret (Nottingham Trent University), UK
    Samuel Fosso Wamba (Toulouse Business School (TBS)), France
    Louis E. Freund (San Jose State University), USA
    Christoph Glauser (Institute for Applied Argumentation Research (IFAAR)), Switzerland
    Kazuyoshi Hidaka (Tokyo Tech), Japan
    Laura Huisinga (California State University – Fresno.), USA
    Walter Ganz (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO)), Germany
    Yasunobu Ito (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)), Japan
    Robles Joshua Ian ( Author/Owner, The Red Mage: World Building in Design), USA
    Youji Kohda (JAIST), Japan
    Oliver Korn (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences), Germany
    Anil Kumar (SJSU), USA
    Steve Kwan (SJSU), USA
    Kelly Lyons (University of Toronto), Canada
    Paul P. Maglio (University of California Merced), USA
    Cristina Mele (University of Naples Federico II), Italy
    Yuri Misnikov (Centre for Economics and Public Administration Ltd.(CEPA)), UK
    Yassi Moghaddam (ISSIP), USA
    Kimberly Mitchell (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), USA
    Robert Mueller-Toeroek (University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg), Germany
    Rainer Nägele, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), Germany
    Angelo Giuseppe Orofino (LUM University), Italy
    Eleonora Pantano (University of Bristol), UK
    Shrikant Parikh (SP Jain), India
    Francesco Polese (University of Salerno), Italy
    Yuriko Sawatani (NUCB Business School), Japan
    Denise Simmons (University of Florida), USA
    Jim Spohrer (ISSIP), USA
    Julián Valero Torrijos (University of Murcia), Spain
    Stephen L. Vargo (University of Hawaii), USA
    Leonard Walletzký (Masaryk University), Czech Republic
    Markus Warg (FH Wedel - University of Applied Sciences), Germany
    Christian Zagel (Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Germany
    Alfred Zimmermann (University Reutlingen), Germany

    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


    Safety Management and Human Factors
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Pedro Arezes (University of Minho), Portugal
    Anne Garcia (ISS/GU), USA

    Board Members:
    Bart Accou (European Union Agency for Railways), France
    Sara Albolino (TOSCANA), Italy
    Sara Bragança (Solent University), UK
    Paula Carneiro (University of Minho), Portugal
    Paulo Carvalho (Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear), Brazil
    Ignacio Castellucci (Universidad de Valparaíso), Chile
    Nélson Costa (University of Minho), Portugal
    Susana Costa (University of Minho), Portugal
    Pedro Domingues (University of Minho), Portugal
    Anne Drummond (University College Dublin), Ireland
    Luis Franz (UFPel), Brazil
    Rick Garceau (Aviation Management Associates, Inc.), USA
    Frank Guldenmund (Delft University of Technology), The Netherlands
    Celeste Jacinto (UBL), Portugal
    Lucie Kocůrková (Technical University of Ostrava), Czech Republic
    Tore Larsson (KTH), Sweden
    Maria Dolores Martínez-Aires (University of Granada), Spain
    Rui Bettencourt Melo (CIAUD ‐ Universidade de Lisboa), Portugal
    Marino Menozzi (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
    Alberto Sérgio Miguel (University of Minho), Portugal
    Beata Mrugalska (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Dimitris Nathanael (NTUA), Greece
    Salman Nazir (University College of Southeast Norway), Norway/Italy
    Miguel Corticeiro Neves (SAPO), Portugal
    Isabel Nunes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal
    Manikam Pillay (RESMEERTS), Australia
    Regina Pope (Bradley University), USA
    Michael Portman ( Georgia Institute of Technology), USA
    Shiva Pourfalatoun (Colorado State University), USA
    Matilde Rodrigues (Polytechnic of Porto), Portugal
    Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero (Universidad de Málaga), Spain
    João Santos Santos Baptista (Universidade Do Porto), Portugal
    Dujuan Sevillian (Cranfield University), USA
    Sílvia Agostinho Silva (ISCTE), Portugal
    Marcos Silva Borges (UFRJ), Brazil
    Palanisamy Sivaprakash (NGP Institute of Technology), India
    Paul Swuste (TUDELFT), The Netherlands
    Gyula Szabo (DSGI ltd), Hungary
    Wim Van Wassenhove (MINES ParisTech), France
    Roland Wescott (NASA), USA

    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):


    • • 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


    • • 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


    • • 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


    • • 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


    • • 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


    Human Factors, Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Alicja Maciejko (University of Zielona Gora), Poland

    Board Members:
    Clinton Aigbavboa (University of Johannesburg), South Africa
    Agata Bonenberg (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Wojciech Bonenberg (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Alexander Burov (Institute of Information Technologies and Learning Tools), Ukraine
    Christianne Falcão (UnFBV), Brazil
    Joanna Jablonska (Wroclaw University of Science & Technology), Poland
    Bronislaw Kapitaniak (Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine), France
    Ludmila Klimatskaya (Yanka Kupala State University), Russia
    Saty Sharma (Savannah College of Art Design), USA
    Andrej Szpakov (TUT), Belarus
    Romuald Tarczewski (WROC), Poland
    Elżbieta Trocka-Leszczyńska (WROC), Poland
    Dorota Winnicka-Jaslowska (Silesian University of Technology), Poland

    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)


    Healthcare and Medical Devices
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Jay Kalra (University of Saskatchewan), Canada
    Nancy Lightner (Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc. (ERPi)), USA

    Board Members:
    Qammer Abbasi (University of Glasgow), UK
    Patricia Arnold (HM), Germany
    Tommaso Bellandi (TOSCANA), Italy
    Balmatee Bidassie (VA), USA
    Fehti Calisir (ITU), Turkey
    Yoel Donchin (Ekmd Central), Israel
    Mahmut Eksioglu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), Turkey
    Achim Elfering (UNIBE), Switzerland
    Enda Fallon (NUI Galway), Ireland
    Xin Feng (FDA/CDRH/ODE/DAGRID/HFPMET), USA
    Mike Fray (Loughborough University), UK
    Mazin Gadir (The Executive Office for Organizational Transformation), UAE
    Anand Gramopadhye (Clemson), USA
    Sue Hignett (Loughborough University), UK
    Erik Hollnagel (Institute of Resilient Systems), France
    Sharon Kleefield (Harvard), USA
    Basia Kutryba (CMJ), Poland
    Bruce Byung Cheol Lee (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi), USA
    Nicolas Marmaras (NTUA), Greece
    Jennifer L. Martin (The University of Nottingham), UK
    Rosângela Míriam Mendonca (ARQUICAD), Brazil
    Kathy Norris (Emory Healthcare), USA
    Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Japan
    Calvin Or (HKU), Hong Kong
    Lenore Page (Alberta Health Services), USA
    Stavros Prineas (ERROMED), Australia
    Ephraim Suhir (Portland State), USA
    Paolo Trucco (Politecnico di Milano), Italy

    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

    Cross-Cultural Decision Making

    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-chairs:
    Atsuo Murata (Okayama University), Japan
    Javed Anjum Sheikh (University of Sialkot), Pakistan

    Board Members:
    Madalina Alama (University of Nevada, Reno), USA
    Umer Asgher (NUST University), Pakistan
    Erman Cakit (Aksaray University), Turkey
    Vladimira Cavojova (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Slovakia
    Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Poland
    Ajay Divakaran (SRI), USA
    Toshihisa Doi (Okayama University), Japan
    Cali Fidopiastis (University of Alabama in Birmingham), USA
    Jim Frank (CTTSO), USA
    Michael Hail (Morehead State), USA
    Canqun He (Hohai University), China
    Amy Heaton (Linchpin International), USA
    Mark Hoffman (Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Labs), USA
    Ayaka Itoh (Keio University), Japan
    David King (Ernst & Young), USA
    Gary Klein (Mitre), USA
    Martin Kruger (Office of Naval Research), USA
    Sue Numrich (Institute for Defense Analyses), USA
    Noriko Okabe (Yokohama National University), Japan
    Jonathan Pfautz (DARPA), USA
    Peter Picucci (Institute for Defense Analyses), USA
    Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories), USA
    Emilie Reitz (Alion / Joint Staff, J6), USA
    Alicia Ruvinsky (Lockheed Martin), USA
    Lelyn Saner (Univ. of Maryland), USA
    Dominique Scapin (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ), France
    Sae Schatz (Advanced Distributed Learning), USA
    Julian Stodd (Sea Salt Learning), UK
    Chihiro Tajima (Gakushuin Women's College), Japan
    Jacqueline Urakami (Tokyo Institute Of Technology), Japan

    About the Track:

    The AHFE Cross-Cultural Decision-Making (CCDM) conference examines human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures. This conference invites researchers, scholars, and industry practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including sociology, linguistics, business, military science, psychology, human factors, neuroscience, and education. Together, through multidisciplinary collaboration, we will seek to understand the impact of culture on people's cognition and behavior.

    This study has broad application. For international business, for instance, it’s important to understand how and why groups from different cultures make dissimilar decisions when faced with the same data. Or for military leaders, understanding the triggers and warning-signs of potential societal unrest and instability are paramount. By combining neurocognitive studies with the academic disciplines described above, we are able to develop a fuller, more holistic understanding of the decisions that people, groups, and societies make, and this understanding gives us a greater ability to forecast and plan for the future.

    • Analyses of historical events that have shaped cultures
    • Cross-cultural (or inter-cultural) competence
    • Civilization change: Ideological, economic, and/or historical changes
    • Commercial applications of social-cultural science
    • Countering cross-cultural radicalization and violent extremism
    • Decision making similarities and differences across cultures
    • Extracting group or society-level understanding from diverse data sources
    • Human, Social, Cultural Behavioral (HSCB) modeling and simulation technology
    • Impact of culture on collaboration and negotiation
    • Social networks and group communications
    • Use cases: Real-world case studies relevant to cross-cultural decision-making


    Digital Human Modeling and Applied Optimization
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Sofia Scataglini (University of Antwerp), Belgium
    Sudhakar Rajulu (NASA), USA

    Board Members:
    Curtis Blais (Naval Postgraduate School), USA
    Dominik Bonin (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), Germany
    Bruce Bradtmiller (Anthrotech), USA
    Hyeg Joo Choi (US Army), USA
    Lars Hanson (Scania), Sweden
    Toon Huysmans (TU Delft), The Netherlands
    Han Kim (Leidos), USA
    Daniele Regazzoni (University of Bergamo), Italy
    Andrea Upmann (Ford), Germany
    Xuguang Wang (IFSTTAR), France
    Sascha Wischniewski (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), Germany

    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

    Digital Human Modelling By Women II

    Digital Human Modelling By Women (DHMW) is an international group dedicated to promoting women scientists, and inspiring girls around the world. DHMW wants to empowering women to exchange ideas, results, and visions in STEAM.
    DHMW in HF would provide an international forum for women who are passionate about gender equity in the field of human factors to explore the barriers and issues on underrepresentation, and models for increasing the pipeline. Our major goal is to build a community of Women in Digital Human Modelling that will be enable the participants to be aware of and to be engaged in improving the environment for women in human factors careers. This Symposium is followed by a round table where participants will hear from expert female researchers and practitioners in the field about their personal and professional experiences.

    Affective and Pleasurable Design
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Shuichi Fukuda (Keio University), Japan

    Board Members:
    Améziane Aoussat (ENSAM), France
    Sangwoo Bahn (Kyung Hee University), Korea
    Lin-Lin Chen (NTUST), Taiwan
    Kwangsu Cho (Yonsei University), Korea
    Sooshin Choi (Creative Studies), USA
    Denis A. Coelho (Universidade da Beira Interior), Portugal
    Oya Demirbilek (UNSW), Australia
    Magnus Feil (UW), USA
    Andy Freivalds (PSU), USA
    Qin Gao (Tsinghua University), China
    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke (Khalifa University), UAE
    Brian Henson (University of Leeds), UK
    Amic G. Ho (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), Hong Kong
    Wonil Hwang (SSU), Korea
    Yong Gu Ji (Yonsei University), Korea
    Eui-Chul Jung (Yonsei University), Korea
    Jieun Kim (HANYANG), Korea
    Kyungdoh Kim (HONGIK), Korea
    Kentaro Kotani (KANSAI-U), Japan
    Stéphanie Minel (ESTIA), France
    Kazunari Morimoto (KIT), Japan
    Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Japan
    Taezoon Park (Soongsil University), Korea
    P.L. Patrick Rau (Tsinghua University), China
    Simon Schutte (LIU), Sweden
    Dosun Shin  (Arizona State University), USA
    Anders Warell (Lund University), Sweden
    Myung Hwan Yun (SNU), Korea

    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


    Human Factors in Transportation
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Aviation: Riccardo Patriarca (Sapienza University of Rome ), Italy
    Road and Rail/Maritime: Gesa Praetorius (VTI), Sweden
    Maritime: Charlott Sellberg (University of Gothenburg), Sweden

    Board Members:

    Transportation-Aviation:
    Andrej Lališ (Czech Technical University in Prague), Czech Republic
    Victoria Banks (University of Southampton), UK
    Marcus Biella (DLR), Germany
    Clark Borst (TUDELFT), The Netherlands
    Tamsyn Edwards (NASA Ames/ San Jose State University), USA
    Michael Feary (NASA), USA
    Becky Hooey (NASA Ames Research Center), USA
    John Huddlestone (Coventry University), UK
    David Kaber (North Carolina State University), USA
    Arnab Majumdar (Imperial College London), UK
    Lynne Martin (NASA), USA
    Joey Mercer (NASA), USA
    Max Mulder (TUDELFT), The Netherlands
    Ivan Sikora (University of West London), UK
    Jon Lars Syversen (Hucon Global AS), Norway
    Savvy Verma (NASA Ames Research Center), USA
    Kim Vu (CSULB), USA
    David Yacht (Southwest Airlines), USA
    Craig Allison (University of Southampton), UK

    Transportation-Road & Rail:
    Craig Allison (University of Southampton), UK
    Giles Balbinotti (RENAULT), Brazil
    Klaus Bengler (TUM), Germany
    Stewart Birrell (University of Warwick), UK
    Gary Burnett (The University of Nottingham), UK
    Peter Chapman (The University of Nottingham), UK
    Fang Chen (Chalmers), Sweden
    Denis Coelho (Universidade da Beira Interior), Portugal
    Benjamin Colucci Rios (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez), Puerto Rico
    Guillaume Craveur (CENTRE d’INGÉNIERIE DU MATERIEL (CIM)), France
    Laurel Dickson-Bull (IBM), USA
    Lisa Dorn (Cranfield University), UK
    Ian Glendon (Griffith University), Australia
    Iwona Grabarek (Warsaw University of Technology), Poland
    Rachel Grice (U.S. Department of Transportation), USA
    Riender Happee (TU Delft), Netherlands
    Samantha Jamson (University of Leeds), UK
    Dave Kaber (North Carolina State University), USA
    Josef Krems (Chemnitz University of Technology), Germany
    Mike Lenné (MONASH), Australia
    Elżbieta Macioszek (Silesian University of Technology), Poland
    Franck Mars (Digital Sciences Of Nantes), France
    Deborah McAvoy (Ohio University), USA
    Ann Mills (RSSB), UK
    Ralf Philipsen (RWTH Aachen University), Germany
    Kirsten Revell (University of Southampton), UK
    Ralf Risser (FACTUM), Austria
    Paul Salmon (University of the Sunshine Coast), Australia
    Neville Stanton (Retired - University of Southampton), UK
    Grzegorz Sierpiński (Silesian University of Technology), Poland
    Vladimír Socha (Czech Technical University in Prague), Czech Republic
    Shafiq ur Rehman (UMU), Sweden 
    Didier Valdes Diaz (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez), Puerto Rico
    Guy Walker (Heriot Watt University), Scotland
    Kristie Young (MONASH), Australia

    Transportation-Maritime:
    Ahmet Dursun Alkan (YILDIZ), Turkey
    David Andrews (UCL), UK
    Joakim Dahlman (VTI/Chalmers), Sweden
    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico (University of Chieti - Pescara), Italy
    Pedro Ferreira (IST Lisbon), Portugal
    Dawn Gray (USCG), USA
    Maria Hänninen (Kotka Maritime Research Center), Finland
    Thomas Koester (FORCE), Denmark
    Scott Netson MacKinnon (MUN), Canada
    Steven Mallam (University of South-Eastern Norway), Norway
    Massimo Musio Sale (Università di Genova - dAD), Italy
    Salman Nazir (University of South-Eastern Norway), Norway
    Stella (Styliani) Parisi (National Technical University in Athens), Greece
    Andrea Ratti (POLIMI), Italy
    Aaron Roberts (University of Southampton), UK
    Jennifer Smith (Memorial University), Canada
    Andrea Vallicelli (d'Annunzio University), Italy
    Fenna van de Merwe (DNVGL), Norway
    Hans van den Broek (TNO), The Netherlands
    Nikolaos Ventikos (National Technical University of Athens), Greece

    Transportation-Space:
    Daniele Bedini (Designer), Italy
    Jason Beierle (NASA), USA
    Tiziano Bernard (Florida Institute of Technolocy), USA
    Roberta Capra (Thales Alenia Space Italia), Italy
    Marinella Ferrino (Thales Alenia Space Italia), Italy
    Enrico Gaia (Thales Alenia Space Italia), Italy
    Sandra Hauplick (TU Wien, Institut für Architektur und Entwerfen), Austria
    Kara Latorella (NASA Langley Research Center), USA
    Kees Nieuwenhuis  (Thales Group), The Netherlands
    Raffaella Ricci (University of Turin), Italy
    Adriana Salatino (University of Turin), Italy
    Irene Schlacht (Politecnico di Milano), Italy
    Domenico Tedone (Thales Alenia Space Italia), Italy


    About the Track:
    Human Factors and Ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure. The AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation welcomes papers that cover any aspect of Human Factors and Ergonomics in transportation, including (but not limited to):

    • 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


    Ergonomics in Design
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Francisco Rebelo (CIAUD and ITI/LARSyS), Portugal
    Zihao Wang (China Academy of Art) China

    Board Members:
    Pedro Arezes (UMinho), Portugal
    Amilton Arruda (University States of Pernambuco), Brazil
    Erminia Attaianese (University of Naples Federico II), Italy
    Guo Beiyuan (Beijing Jiaotong University), China
    Eric Brangier (Université Paul Verlaine), France
    Ralph Bruder (Tu-Darmstadt), Germany
    José Juan Canãs (University of Granada), Spain
    Miguel Carvalho (University of Minho), Portugal
    Fernando da Silva (CIAUD - Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.), Portugal
    Emilia Duarte (IADE), Portugal
    Ernesto Filgueiras (CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture), Portugal
    M. Goebel (Rhodes University), South Africa
    Sougata Karmakar (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)), India
    Tiantian Li (Tsinghua University), China
    Lia Buarque Macedo (University of Rio de Grande), Brazil
    Nuno Martins (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave), Portugal
    Beata Mrugalska (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Mitsuo Nagamachi (Hiroshima International University), Japan
    Andre Neves (Federal University of Pernambuco), Brazil
    Paulo Noriega (FMH), Portugal
    Lucia Okimoto (UFPR), Brazil
    Luis Paschoarelli (UNESP), Brazil
    Eliana Penedos-Santiago (University of Porto), Portugal
    João carlos r Placido da silva (UNESP / USC), Brazil
    Lilia Prado (YAHOO), Mexico
    Daniel Raposo (CIAUD), Portugal
    Pradip Kumar Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), India
    He Renke (Hunan University), China
    Zhangfan Shen (Jiangnan University), China
    Sarbjit Singh (NIT), India
    Marcelo Soares (Hunan University), China
    Peeyush Soni (Indian Institute of Technology), Thailand
    Steve Summerskill (Loughborough University), UK
    Ming Sun (Carnegie Mellon University), USA
    Yuanbo Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology), China
    Zhengyu Tan (Hunan University), China
    Patel Thaneswer (NERIST), India
    Bruce Thomas (University of Edinburgh), The Netherlands
    Elisangela Vilar (Lisbon University), Portugal
    Haining Wang (Hunan University), China
    Weiwei Wang (Ulster College at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology), China
    Steve Ward (UNSW), Australia
    Toshiki Yamaoka (Kyoto Women's University), Japan
    Zhengwei You (Beijing University), China
    Suihuai Yu (Northwest University), USA
    Danhua Zhao (Hunan University), China
    Qichao Zhao (Beijing KingFar International, Inc.), China
    Wang Zihao (Hunan University), China

    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

    Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke (Khalifa University), UAE
    Shuping Xiong (KAIST), South Korea

    Board Members:
    Sandra Alemany (Universitat Politècnica de), Spain
    Mark Boocock (AUT), New Zealand
    Emilio Cadavid (Empresas Publicas de Medellin), Colombia
    Jack Callaghan (UWATERLOO), Canada
    Patrick Dempsey (CDC), USA
    Robert Feyen (UMN), USA
    Jerzy Grobelny (Wrocław University), Poland
    Thomas Hofmann (UAS Osnabrueck), Germany
    Jon James (KPMG), South Africa
    Zuhua Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), China
    Henrijs Kalkis (University of Latvia), Latvia
    Kentaro Kotani (KANSAI-U), Japan
    Young Kook Kwon (SNUT), Korea
    Mark Lehto (Purdue University), USA
    Chi-Wen Lung (Asia University), Taiwan
    Ameersing Luximon (POLYU), Hong Kong
    Liang Ma (Tsinghua University), China
    Stanislav  Maly (Occupational Safety Research Institute), Czech Republic
    Satoshi Muraki (Kyushu University), Japan
    Mahiyar Nasarwanji (CDC/NIOSH/OMSHR), USA
    Jianwei  Niu (University of Science and Technology Beijing), China
    Enrico Occhipinti (TISCALINET), Italy
    Yusaku Okada (MVC), Japan
    Hana Pacaiova (Technical University of Kosice), Slovak Republic
    Wonjin Park (Seoul National University), South Korea
    Gunther Paul (QUT), Australia
    Pradip Kumar Ray (IIT Kharagpur), India
    Zenjia Roja (University of Latvia), Latvia
    Luz Saenz (UNE), Colombia
    Luo Shijan (Zhejiang University), China
    Juraj Sinay (Technical University of Kosice), Slovak Republic
    Shuping Xiong (KAIST), Korea
    James Yang (Texas Tech University), USA

    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 productive, 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.


    Usability & User Experience
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Christianne Falcão (UnFBV), Brazil

    Board Members:
    Jesslyn Alekseyev (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), USA
    Hanan A. Alnizami (Clemson University), USA
    Walter Franklin Correia (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Brazil
    Wolfgang Friesdorf (Tu-Berlin), Germany
    Shin’ichi Fukuzumi (NEC Corporation), Japan
    Sue Hignett (Loughborough University), UK
    Wonil Hwang (SSU), S. Korea
    Yong Gu Ji (Yonsei University), Korea
    Bernard C. Jiang (Tawan University of Science and Technology), Taiwan
    Ger Joyce (University of Hertfordshire), UK
    Chee Weng Khong (Multimedia University), Malaysia
    Zhizhong Li (Tsinghua University), PR China
    Wei Liu (Beijing Normal University), China
    Nelson Matias (UERJ), Brazil
    Abbas Moallem (San Jose State University), USA
    Beata Mrugalska (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Francisco Rebelo (CIAUD and ITI/LARSyS), Portugal
    Valerie Rice (Army Research Laboratory), USA
    Emilio Rossi (University of Chieti-Pescara), Italy
    Javed Anjum Sheikh (University of Sialkot), Pakistan
    Marcelo Soares (Hunan University), China
    Alvin Yeo (UNIMAS), Malaysia
    Wei Zhang (Tsinghua University), PR China

    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


    Neuroergonomics & Cognitive Engineering
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Chair:
    Frederic Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO), France

    Board Members:
    Hojjat Adeli (Ohio State University), USA
    Carryl Baldwin (George Mason University), USA
    Hasan Ayaz (Drexel University), USA
    Winston "Wink" Bennett (AFRL), USA
    Alexander Burov (Institute of Information Technologies and Learning Tools), Ukraine
    Murat Perit Cakir (METU), Turkey
    Daniel Callan (Osaka University), Japan
    Pilsung  Choe (Qatar University), Qatar
    Paul Cummings (ICFI), USA
    Ewart de Visser (US Air Force Academy), USA
    Frederic Dehais (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace), France
    Xiaowen Fang (Depaul University), USA
    Chris Forsythe (Sandia National Laboratories), USA
    Qin Gao (Tsinghua University), China
    Klaus Gramann (Technische Universität Berlin), Germany
    Yang Guo (Purdue University), USA
    Peter Hancock (University of Central Florida), USA
    Angela Harrivel (NASA), USA
    David Kaber (North Carolina State University), USA
    Kentaro Kotani (KANSAI-U), Japan
    Ben Lawson (U.S. Army), USA
    Soo-Young Lee (KAIST), Korea
    Harry Liao (Sandia National Laboratories), USA
    Yili Liu (University of Michigan), USA
    Lukasz Mazur (University of North Carolina), USA
    Ryan McKendrick (Northrop Grumman Aerospace), USA
    John Murray (SRI), USA
    Ant Ozok (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), USA
    Oronzo Parlangeli (University of Siena), Italy
    Stephane Perrey (University of Montpellier), France
    Stephane Perrey (University of Montpellier), France
    Robert Proctor (Purdue University), USA
    April Savoy (Purdue University), USA
    Kim Vu (CSU Long Beach), USA
    Thomas Waldmann (UL), Ireland
    Tomas Ward (National University of Ireland), Ireland
    Brent Winslow (Design Interactive), USA
    Greg Zacharias (Charles River Analytics), USA
    Leon Zeng (Morningstar, Inc.), USA
    Matthias Ziegler (Lockheed Martin), USA

    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


    Social and Occupational Ergonomics
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Henrijs Kalkis (Riga Stradins University), Latvia
    Zenija Roja (Riga Stradins University), Latvia

    Board Members:
    Diana Horn (Retired), USA
    Sheue-Ling Hwang (NTHU), Taiwan
    Jussi Kantola (University of Turku), Finland
    Brian Kleiner (Virginia Tech), USA
    Leszek Pacholski (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Michelle Robertson (Liberty Mutual), USA
    Susumu Saito (ISL), Japan
    Mike Smith (University of Wisconsin), USA
    Hannu Vanharanta (Tampere University of Technology), Finland
    Zbigniew Wisniewski (Lodz University of Technology), Poland
    Ruifeng Yu (Tsinghua University), China

    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.


    Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Managing Enterprise of the Future
    Scientific Advisory Board

    Co-Chairs:
    Stefan Trzcielinski (Poznan University of Technology), Poland

    Board Members:
    Madalena Araujo (Universidade do Minho), Portugal
    Dominique Besson (Lille 1 University), France
    Lucia Botti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Italy
    Alan Chan (City University of Hong Kong), China
    Keyur Darji (Gujarat Technological University), India
    Enda Fallon (National University of Ireland, Galway), Ireland
    Sarah Fletcher (Cranfield University), UK
    Weimin Ge (Tianjin University of Technology), China
    Hiroyuki Hamada (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Japan
    Irena Hejduk (SGH Warsaw School of Economics), Poland
    Joanna Kalkowska (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Aleksandr Kozlov (Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University), Russia
    Guangwen Luo (Jiangmen Polytechnic), China
    Preeti Nair (Parul University), India
    Edmund Pawlowski (Poznan University of Technology), Poland
    Aleksandra Polak-Sopinska (Lodz University of Technology), Poland
    Vesa Salminen (Häme University of Applied Sciences), Finland
    Antonio Lucas Soares (University of Porto), Portugal
    Lukasz Sulkowski (Jagiellonian University), Poland
    Gyula Szabó (Óbuda University), Hungary
    Yingchun Wang (Tianjin University of Technology), China
    Marc-Andre Weber (Institut fur Angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft), Germany
    Hanna Wlodarkiewicz-Klimek (Poznan University of Technology), Poland

    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