Society Honors

Product Design Award Nominations Due May 7

By Dianne L. McMullin & Stanley H. Caplan, Award Chairs

     The Product Design Technical Group (PDTG) is sponsoring its 9th Annual User-Centered Product Design Award. The award emphasizes both product design and methods used to specify and achieve the design. Emphasis is placed on innovative and user-centered approaches to human factors and industrial design. Consideration is limited to products, software, or systems that are purchased for use in the home, in the workplace, or while mobile, including consumer, commercial, and medical products but excluding military equipment or systems. The product or system being nominated must be operational and capable of being marketed with no more than minimal changes. Products already on the market for more than three years will not be considered.

     Nominations will be accepted from individuals nominating others or nominating themselves. At least one team member who contributed significantly to the project must be a member of HFES. Membership in the Product Design Technical Group is not required. The nominations should be submitted in electronic form by a human factors professional. Detailed submission requirements, including the submission format, are shown on the PDTG Web site. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 7, 2010. Nominations should be submitted to Dianne McMullin at dianne.l.mcmullin@boeing.com.

     The winning product or system will be recognized at the 54th HFES Annual Meeting in San Francisco, September 27-October 1, 2010, and the awardee(s) will be asked to make a presentation on the product and the methodology used to develop it. Awardees are expected to submit a paper to Ergonomics in Design within two months of the meeting.

     A panel of judges drawn from the PDTG membership will evaluate the submissions. For more information or to volunteer for the award selection committee, please contact Stan Caplan at scaplan@usabilityassociates.com.

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