Annual Meeting

Virtual Workshops at This Year's Annual Meeting
By Anthony D. Andre, Internal Affairs Domain Leader, & Philip J. Smith, Meetings Domain Leader

     New for this year is the Web broadcast of two half-day 53rd Annual Meeting workshops. The aim of broadcasting these workshops is to bring human factors/ergonomics tools to professionals who are not able to attend the Annual Meeting.

     Our first forays into the virtual world are Bonnie John's workshop, "Cognitive Crash Dummies: Predictive Human Performance Modeling for Interactive System Design" (Monday, October 19, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon), and David Woods's workshop, "Engineering Resilience to Create Safety" (Monday, October 19, 1:30-5:00 p.m.). Information about the workshops can be found here.

     Each workshop will be broadcast in real time through a popular Web conference service. The audio portion will be available both through computer audio and via telephone (as backup). Off-site participants will be able to submit questions to the moderator, who will present them to the workshop presenter. Registered off-site participants will be sent details of login and audio connection procedures in September.

     The off-site registration fees, which offer substantial savings over the on-site fee, are $110 for members, $140 for nonmembers, and $25 for students. Traditional on-site attendance is encouraged for meeting attendees.

     These, the Society's first Web seminars, were planned by the Virtual HFES Task Force, headed by Domain Leaders Anthony D. Andre and Philip J. Smith. Over the course of the past six months, we obtained input from other Domain Leaders, the Executive Council, and HFES members on the topic of Web-based services.

     We hope that those who can't attend the 2009 Annual Meeting will benefit from one or both of these informative workshops. Our goal is for this to be a convenient and inexpensive way to keep informed, obtain continuing education units (CEUs), and otherwise be a part of the Annual Meeting. Look for more Web-based presentations and services to be announced soon!

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