Annual Meeting

Preliminary Call for Proposals: 54th Annual Meeting
September 27-October 1, 2010
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California, USA

     The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's Annual Meeting is the primary gathering of researchers and practitioners in the field of human factors/ergonomics and related areas. We invite you to submit proposals for the 54th Annual Meeting, which will take place September 27-October 1 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center. Participants are invited to submit proposals, including case studies, debates, demonstrations, competitive product designs, new methodologies, on-site experiments, and posters involving both fixed and dynamic information presentation.

Proposal Due Date

     The deadline for submitting any type of proposal is January 19, 2010. A fully detailed call for proposals will be available at the HFES Web site in November.

Submit a Five-Page Formatted Proposal

     The Technical Program Committee is seeking five-page proposals, which must be formatted in the same two-column layout that is used for papers published in the proceedings. This aids both proposers and reviewers: Proposers no longer have to write two distinct types of documents, and reviewers can be more confident that the proposal is an appropriate summary of what will appear in the proceedings.

     Proposals for any type of submission (lecture, poster, panel, etc.) cannot exceed five correctly formatted pages. Formatting instructions will be available in the online Call for Proposals, along with a layout template into which text may be inserted. Again, there is no word limit for the proposals; however, the font must be easily readable, and authors must address all the points specified in the Call for Proposals.

Submitting Proposals

     Detailed instructions for submitting materials will be included in the online Call for Proposals. All submissions will be uploaded to a Web site. (The URL will be provided in the instructions.) You must have an e-mail address to submit a proposal because all correspondence regarding your submission will be sent via e-mail.

     Papers that have been published previously or presented at another professional meeting may not be submitted. All research and analyses described in your proposal must be complete at the time the proposal is submitted. Program chairs may reject, with or without review, papers that do not present completed work. The sole exception to this policy is for student work submitted for consideration in the Student Forum track, in which case the proposer may report on work in progress. Note that for all accepted submissions, one of the authors must attend the meeting to present the work. All presenters are required to pay the meeting registration fee. If you know of nonmembers who might be interested in submitting a proposal, please send their contact information to the Communications Department (lois@hfes.org, 310/394-1811), and we will invite them to submit their work.

HFES Copyright

     HFES requires a transfer of copyright unless the work was performed by U.S. government employees. However, the author may reuse the material for any purpose without restriction or fee. If you have questions about the HFES copyright transfer policy, please contact the HFES Communications Department (310/394-1811, lois@hfes.org).

     We look forward to receiving your submission and to seeing you in San Francisco next year.

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