Call for Proposals

HFES 50th Annual Meeting
October 16-20, 2006
Hilton San Francisco Hotel
San Francisco, California USA

THE SUBMISSION SITE IS NOW CLOSED TO AUTHORS.

Contents
Key Dates
General Information
Step-by-Step Instructions
Student Forum Sessions
Descriptions and Materials to Submit for Each Presentation Type
HFES Technical Groups
Program Chair Information

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting is the primary gathering of researchers and practitioners in the field of human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) and related areas. The 50th Annual Meeting will be a special celebration of our historical foundations and views of the future of our profession. As such, we encourage creative proposals for program materials of all kinds. The meeting will take place at the Hilton San Francisco Hotel in San Francisco, California. (The hotel will begin accepting room reservations at the special HFES rate in early June.)

New formats for presenting HF/E efforts are strongly encouraged. 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.

HFES particularly welcomes submissions from professionals in related fields. View the descriptions of HFES Technical Groups to determine if there is a match between your work and the interest areas of HF/E researchers and practitioners. The Society may waive the one-day registration fee for allied professionals who attend the meeting just to present their work.

Note that proposals for all presentation types (e.g., lectures, posters, demonstrations) are due on the same date, MARCH 1. Accepted authors are strongly encouraged to prepare a proceedings paper of one to five pages (see also details about Publication Requirements below).

Proposals cannot be submitted to the online system after midnight on March 1. Don't wait until the last minute to submit. If you encounter problems (e.g., your proposal file size is too large), you may not have time to meet the deadline.

Proposals that do not conform to the requirements described in this Call for Proposals or that are sent to more than one Technical Group will not be reviewed. Note that for all accepted proposals, one of the authors must attend the meeting to present the work. All presenters are required to pay the meeting registration fee.

NOTE: THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CHANGES TO SUBMISSION TYPES, FORMATS, AND REVIEW PROCESSES. Please do not submit a proposal until you have read the entire Call for Proposals.

Online Submission and Review

You must have e-mail access to have a proposal considered for the HFES Annual Meeting. All communication with you about your proposal (e.g., confirmation of receipt, acceptance/rejection notices) will be sent by the online submission system via e-mail. The sender is "HFES2006." If you have spam-blocking software or other filters running, please adjust your settings to prevent interference with e-mail messages from HFES2006. In addition, if your e-mail address changes during the review period, be sure to log in and update it or notify HFES.

When you receive an e-mail message from HFES2006, you will be directed to click a Web page link to view the detailed message text. This enables HFES to confirm that you received and read the message. In addition, when you log in as a proposer, you will be able to view a list of e-mail messages that were sent to you in the past and re-view them if necessary.

All proposals will be submitted to the HFES 2006 Submission Web site. Detailed instructions appear below.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Papers that have been published previously or presented at another professional meeting may not be submitted. Submission of your annual meeting proposal is your representation to HFES that all coauthors have given their consent to publish the paper. You must choose one HFES Technical Group to which to submit your proposal, or you may choose General Sessions (see below). If you have questions about the suitability of your proposal for a technical group, contact the appropriate program chair.

Unless you are submitting to Student Forum (see "Student Forum Sessions" below), proposals must describe completed work. Nonstudent proposals describing work in progress will not be accepted.

Content of Abstracts and Summaries

This section describes the submission requirements for technical proposals. Most proposals require three elements: proposers' contact information, a 150-word abstract, and a 2000-word summary.

Abstracts. In 150 words, address all the important points succinctly. If your proposal is accepted, the abstract will be available for viewing in the online preliminary program. In addition, technical group newsletter editors and others use these abstracts in their publications and on their Web sites.

Summaries. The 2000-word summary is the key item that reviewers use in their evaluations. It is a brief statement of all the major points you wish to make. The online submission system enforces size limits for all types of proposals; an error message will appear if you attempt to upload or cut and paste more than these limits. If your summary is substantially more or less than 2000 words, the program chair may reject your proposal. NOTE: Included in the 2000 words are any tables and references.

Tables and figure. You may submit a small number (i.e., 1-4) of tables, illustrations, and/or figures if they substantially clarify the method or results.

Research Papers

Summaries of research papers should contain the following, as appropriate:

• Introduction: General statement to orient the reader to the specific problem, research strategy, and relevant literature. Providing lengthy introductions and excluding other items can lead to rejection of the proposal.
• Method: How the study was conducted, including participants, apparatus, and procedure. State exactly what independent and dependent variables are included in your research.
• Results: Summarize the data collected and the statistical treatments and effects.
• Discussion: Describe your inferences from the results and their implications.
• References, tables, figures: Provide full references for all citations used in this proposal. References are included in the total word count and should be styled according to the latest edition of the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (5th ed.).

Practice-Oriented Papers

Although many papers accepted for the annual meeting describe results of empirical research, papers that focus on the practice of human factors are welcome. Examples might include:

• Critical analyses of problem or technology-application areas
• Summaries of advances in human factors processes, procedures, and tools and methods of using them
• Field studies
• Critiques of existing research
• "Lessons learned" discussions of human factors successes or failures

Practitioner papers should emphasize information that could be used readily by other practitioners (e.g., new approaches, methods, strategies, or techniques), not merely report on a project one has completed. The practice-oriented paper requirements are slightly different from those for research proposals:

• Introduction: General statement to orient the reader to the area of your study. Avoid overly long introductions to the exclusion of other information.
• Practice innovation: Exactly what your paper will demonstrate or explain. Sources of information: How and where you have gathered relevant information, or a detailed description of your idea, product, system, or concept.
• Findings: A summary of the information you have gathered.
• Discussion: Practical applications and implications drawn from the findings.
• References, tables, figures: Provide full references for all citations used in this proposal. References are included in the total word count and should be styled according to the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (5th ed.).

NEW! Theoretical Papers

The Technical Program Committee encourages submissions that make important theoretical contributions to the area of human factors/ergonomics. We encourage both papers that advance a particular theoretical perspective and those that report on systematic evaluations of alternative theories in a given domain. Simple literature reviews and surveys that do not make additional theoretical contributions are not considered appropriate for the annual meeting. (Note: adapted from APA guidelines for Psychological Review).

Format theoretical papers according to the following sections/headings:

• Introduction/thesis: Introduce topic area, background information, and goal of paper. Describe theoretical proposition(s) and/or argument(s) of the paper. Avoid overly long introductions to the exclusion of other information.
• Review: Sources of information: Describe literature and other resources used to support thesis.
• New contribution: A summary of the theoretical contribution made by your thesis.
• Discussion: Conclusions and practical applications of theoretical contribution to the field of human factors/ergonomics.
• References, tables, figures: Provide full references for all citations used in this proposal. References are included in the total word count and should be styled according to the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (5th ed.).

Review Process

The online submission and review system supports double-blind review, whereby the authors and reviewers are not known to one another and only the program chair can view their identity. However, this requires that authors follow these instructions:

• On the first page of the abstract and summary, include only the title of your presentation. Omit any authors' names and affiliations.
• Make sure any running headers and footers do not contain the authors' names.

Note that program chairs have the discretion to reveal the author's identity to the reviewers when this is judged to be an important consideration in the review process. In addition, a reviewer may choose to identify him/herself to the author in the reviewer comments.

Approval Process

Do not submit your proposal unless you have received internal approval or clearance from your employer, client, or sponsor. Be sure to obtain clearance as soon as possible so you don't miss the March 1 proposal submission deadline.

Commercialism

HFES reserves the right to reject or cancel nonworkshop technical presentations that inappropriately promote a product or service. Questions about this policy may be directed to Technical Program Committee Chair Barrett Caldwell.

Publication Requirements

If your proposal is accepted, you will receive an e-mail message instructing you how to format and submit your final proceedings paper for the annual meeting proceedings. There is an absolute five-page limit for proceedings papers; the page limit is strictly enforced. Completed papers are due June 26, so, again, be sure to obtain employer approval promptly. HFES reserves the right to cancel publication if papers are received after June 26.

It is HFES policy to obtain a signed transfer of copyright for all accepted papers submitted for publication in the meeting proceedings, unless the senior author is a U.S. government employee or is employed by a non-U.S. government agency. However, authors may reuse the work provided the original publication is acknowledged in the reprinted work. All coauthors' names and signatures must appear on the Copyright Transfer Form. A sample form may be viewed during the proposal submission process, but you need not sign and submit it when you upload your initial proposal.

If your employer uses an alternative copyright transfer form, you must submit it to HFES for consideration at the time you submit your proposal. HFES will consider such forms insofar as they are compatible with the Society's terms and policies. Send alternative forms to Lois Smith at HFES, P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369 USA, fax 310/394-2410.

Publication of an accepted paper in the annual meeting proceedings does not necessarily preclude consideration of a fuller version of the same work for an HFES journal such as Human Factors. The proceedings paper must be suitably revised for journal publication (e.g., more detailed).

Alphonse Chapanis Best Student Paper Award

This award provides a certificate and $1000 cash gift to the student or students who conduct outstanding human factors research that is accepted for the annual meeting, presented before the Chapanis Award Committee, and judged to be the best student paper presented at the meeting. Students who wish to apply may complete the application form included with the proceedings paper instructions, which will be available at the HFES Web site in May. Eligibility is contingent on all authors being students; joint authorship with a faculty member makes the paper ineligible. Other eligibility criteria are provided on the application form.

To be considered for the Chapanis Award, a copy of the final paper and the completed application must be submitted by the proceedings submission deadline, June 26.

Some HFES Technical Groups also offer best annual meeting paper awards. If you are interested in having your accepted paper considered for one of these awards, be sure to select "Student Work" in the online submission system when uploading your proposal.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Requirements for All Submissions

Proposals must be uploaded to the proposal submission Web site. When logging in, please use only one e-mail address to identify yourself, no matter how many proposals you wish to upload. Choose a password and record it somewhere for future use. If you forget your password, you can request a reminder by clicking "Forget you password?" on the main login page.

Before logging in to the site, (a) read all the information in this Call for Proposals, (b) have your abstract and proposal ready on your desktop for uploading, and (c) be ready to input the full names and affiliations of all your coauthors. Simple instructions for entering information and uploading your proposal are provided on each screen as you step through the submission process, which takes about 10 minutes per proposal, depending on the presentation type.

NOTE: At the end of the submission process, you must click the "Submit for Review" button, which is available after you finish proofreading the file you uploaded. If you do not get to the page with the "Submit for Review" button, log back in with the same ID and password and complete the process. Contact HFES if you have questions or problems.

When your submission has been successfully uploaded, you will receive an automated e-mail confirming that you completed the process. If you do not get this confirmation message but think you completed the submission, contact HFES. The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is not responsible for incomplete submissions.

If you have multiple proposals, you will be prompted to enter them at the conclusion of each submission. If you log out and reenter the site at a later time to submit additional proposals, DO NOT create a new login ID and password or enter the system using another e-mail address. Contact HFES if you have problems.

Choosing Your Presentation Format

As you begin preparing your proposal for the annual meeting, carefully review the descriptions of the various presentation formats (see "Descriptions and Materials Needed..." below) and select the format that best matches the nature of the material you wish to present as well as the objective(s) of your presentation.

HFES presentation formats are as follows. All annual meeting sessions are 90 minutes in duration except Workshops, which may be 3 or 6 hours.

Lecture: Oral presentation of 15 minutes with question-answer period following either each paper in the session or after the final paper. Five lecture papers are gathered in one session.

Discussion Panel: Brief statement (5-10 minutes) by each panelist followed by extended discussion involving the audience and panel members. Maximum of six panelists; minimum of 30 minutes discussion time.

Poster: Materials are displayed on a board for 90 minutes, viewable by meeting attendees; emphasis is on graphical display format and one-on-one interaction with audience.

Invited Symposium: An organizer or chair decides on a theme and invites up to five presenters to give individual oral presentations (15 minutes). Concludes with question-answer segment and/or discussant presentation.

Demonstration: Brief oral presentation (5 minutes) followed by a live demonstration of a tool or product. A session may include up to five demonstrations; audience members circulate throughout the room, and a demo presenter may repeat the presentation numerous times. No commercialism permitted.

Workshop: Combination of educational lecture and active hands-on exercises involving workshop participants to promote skill-building of a tool, technique, or method. The primary emphasis of each workshop should be on specific, practical skills associated with the exercises. May be 3 or 6 hours; one or more presenters as needed to address audience needs. Honorarium for presenters.

Debate: Up to four presenters represent opposing sides of a topic with a moderator (chair) guiding the debate. Audience participation is optional.

Alternative Format: Creative and unique approaches to presenting information, such as group activities. For presentations that cannot be accommodated by the foregoing formats.

Technical Groups versus General Sessions

Except for Workshops, authors may submit their proposals to the Technical Group (TG) deemed most appropriate for their proposed topic (see the Technical Group descriptions), OR to General Sessions if the proposal has clear applicability to multiple TGs or falls outside the existing TG structure.

Some TGs have prepared individualized calls for proposals on specific topics or emphasizing specific aspects of the domain. Be sure to review these specific calls before submitting your work.

Proposals submitted to General Sessions should encompass broad areas of interest and integrate multiple perspectives. Past General Sessions topics have included HF/E problem solving, field studies, systems analysis, and other multidisciplinary topics.

Additionally, new research areas emerge that do not currently fit within the traditional TG makeup and best find homes in General Sessions. For example, the Human Performance Modeling, Internet, and Medical Systems TGs began life with General Sessions papers in recent annual meetings.

Special interest groups within HFES (that is, groups with a topical area of interest that have not yet qualified as an HFES technical group) may wish to submit a session or group of sessions to General Sessions. These sessions should be identified as coming from an organized special interest group, and the name of the organizer of that group must be included in the submission. Such sessions will be accorded slots in the program under the same criteria as those applied to other General Sessions submissions.

To help you decide (a) whether to submit to a technical group or General Sessions and (b) the most appropriate presentation type for your submission, refer to the following charts.

How to Upload Your Proposal

1. Select ONLY ONE presentation type from the pull-down menu at the online submission site:

Alternative Format
Debate
Demonstration
Discussion Panel
Invited Symposium
Lecture
Poster
Workshop

2. View the descriptions of topic coverage of the Society's 22 Technical Groups, particularly the special calls for proposals from selected TGs. Then select ONLY ONE of the following technical areas for your paper from the pull-down menu. This automatically directs your proposal to the program chair for that area. NOTE: Submitting the same proposal to more than one technical group may result in automatic rejection of the work and prohibition from presenting papers at future HFES Annual Meetings.

Aerospace Systems
Aging
Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Communications
Computer Systems
Education
Environmental Design
Forensics Professional
General Sessions
Health Care
Human Performance Modeling
Individual Differences in Performance
Industrial Ergonomics
Internet
Macroergonomics
Perception & Performance
Product Design
Safety
Student Forum (see below)
Surface Transportation
System Development
Test and Evaluation
Training
Virtual Environments
Workshops

If the program chair who receives your proposal feels it would fit better in another technical area, he or she may redirect it to that group. You will receive an automated message via e-mail should that occur.

3. Indicate a secondary technical area by selecting one item from the pull-down menu. This will help the program chairs avoid topic overlaps. NOTE: Your proposal will be sent to the program chair of the technical group you selected in the primary technical area, not the secondary area.

4. Select a Presentation Type (Lecture, Discussion Panel, Invited Symposium, etc.); see above.

5. Select "Research Oriented," "Practice Oriented," or "Theoretically Oriented."

6. Select either "Student Work" or "Nonstudent Work." This assists program chairs and reviewers during the proposal evaluation stage. Accepted Student Work proposals may be scheduled in the Student Forum track (see "Student Forum Sessions" below; posters may not be submitted for consideration in Student Forum).

7. If your paper is part of an invited symposium, enter the five-digit Symposium Code, which you will need to obtain from the organizer. Do not submit your proposal until you have received this code.

8. The system automatically sends you a confirmation message by e-mail when your proposal has been uploaded successfully. KEEP THIS FOR YOUR FILES. You may log in to the system at any time to view the status of your proposal or e-mail messages that have been sent to you.

If any of your contact information changes during the review process, be sure to log back into the online submission system and update your record. HFES is not responsible in the event communication about your proposal fails to reach you because of incorrect contact information in the on-line database.

STUDENT FORUM SESSIONS

HFES encourages proposals geared toward students. Past sessions include presentations on skills for transitioning from school to work or to an HF/E career from another field, employment trends in the HF/E field, and improving interviewing and résumé-writing techniques. When submitting your proposal, select "Student Forum" in the Technical Area pulldown menu.

Proposals of student work for a "Student Work Only" lecture session are also welcome. Submission of completed work is desirable; however, work in progress will also be accepted. The format of the session will be such that feedback on work in progress can be freely given. There will be at least one student reviewer for each submission. When submitting your proposal, first select a Presentation Type (e.g., lecture, discussion panel), select the Technical Area that best represents your topic (e.g., Computer Systems), and then indicate if the proposal is research oriented, practice oriented, or theoretically oriented. Finally, select "Student Work." In the Technical Area pulldown menu, select "Student Forum."

DESCRIPTIONS AND MATERIALS TO SUBMIT FOR EACH PRESENTATION TYPE

Presentation format: POSTER
Description: Poster presentations are individual proposals that describe recent empirical, theoretical, or design work on significant HF/E topics. In contrast to the traditional lecture paper, this format offers presenters the unique opportunity to interact one-on-one with attendees in an open, dynamic setting, and allows presenters to provide thoughtful, in-depth responses to questions about their research to a broader audience. Poster presenters are encouraged to make effective use of graphics as well as text. NOTE: Posters are not alternatives to exhibits; therefore, commercial or sales-oriented poster proposals will not be accepted.
Presentation length: Posters are on display for 90 minutes.
Proceedings paper: Presenters of accepted posters may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract and 2000-word summary.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: LECTURE
Description: Lecture presentations are individual proposals that describe recent empirical, theoretical, or design work on significant HF/E topics. Typically, individual proposals are grouped together by the TG program chair based on the common topic area shared by the presentations.
Presentation length: Up to five lecture presentations are combined into a single 90-minute session. On average, each presenter is allotted 15 minutes to allow time for questions/answers.
Proceedings paper: Presenters of accepted lectures may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract and 2000-word summary.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Description: A session organizer/chair determines a theme for the symposium and then invites individual presentations. Up to five individual oral presentations make up a session. The organizer/chair may present an overview of the symposium that introduces the topic, summarizes key points of each presentation and the relationships among them, and draws conclusions based on the presentations. Alternately, the chair may wish to invite a discussant to comment on and integrate the presentations.

Invited symposium proposals should describe recent empirical, theoretical, or design work on significant HF/E topics. However, the symposium should present a topic of sufficient scope and importance to allow diverse or conflicting views on the topic.

HFES discourages symposia in which a majority of the participants come from a single organization. Exceptions may be made with the concurrence of the appropriate TG program chair and the Technical Program Committee chair.

Symposium proposals may be submitted by an organizer who does not intend to serve as a session chair and who appoints a session chair, or the organizer may also serve as chair. The organizer or chair should not also be a presenter of a full paper in the session. The chair is responsible for notifying participants of acceptance or rejection and providing participants with copies of one another's abstracts and papers.
Presentation length: One 90-minute session consisting of up to five 15-minute presentations preceded or followed by a short summary by the symposium chair or discussant.
Proceedings paper: Each presenter of a symposium paper may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages. Symposium chairs may publish a symposium abstract of up to two pages.
Materials to submit:150-word overview abstract describing the symposium, 150-word abstract for each paper in the session, and 2000-word summary for each paper in the session.
Symposium code: When the symposium organizer creates a new symposium, the submission system will generate a five-digit code. All presenters in the symposium session must use this code when they enter their individual proposals. If you are the organizer, be sure to send your session presenters the symposium code to ensure that their papers are reviewed as a group.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: DISCUSSION PANEL
Description: A discussion panel involves informal discussion on a topic yet must be structured to offer a high degree of interaction between the panelists and the audience. A panel provides a unique opportunity for the dynamic exchange of views among panelists and members of the audience on a topic of common interest. A panel is not a series of papers as in a lecture session or an invited symposium.

HFES discourages panels in which a majority of the participants come from a single organization. Exceptions may be made with the concurrence of the appropriate TG program chair and the Technical Program Committee chair.

Panel proposals may be submitted by an organizer who does not intend to serve as session chair and appoints a chair for the panel, or the organizer can also serve as the session chair. The panel organizer or chair should not also be a panelist in the session. The organizer of the panel serves as the contact between the program chair and individual panelists. The panel organizer is responsible for submitting the proposal, selecting a chair and cochair, notifying panelists of acceptance or rejection, obtaining letters of agreement to appear from each accepted panelist, and providing panelists with copies of the panel abstracts and overview summary.
Presentation length: One 90-minute session consisting of not more than six panelists, each of whom should speak between 5 and 10 minutes (depending on the number of panelists), followed by an open discussion period of at least 30 minutes. The panel chair is expected to prepare questions to stimulate audience participation.
Proceedings paper: Panel chairs may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages. The paper should provide an overview of the issues to be discussed by the panel and may include material provided by the panelists. Individual panelists will not receive instructions for preparing a proceedings paper.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract; 2000-word panel summary, which should consist of the combined 150-word abstracts from each panelist briefly describing what he or she will discuss.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: DEBATE
Description: A debate is intended to present opposing views on a common topic. Debates may take either of two forms: traditional, in which the chair serves only as a timekeeper; or directed, in which the chair poses a series of questions, each of which is debated in turn. The debate chair cannot also be a debater in the session. Audience participation in the questioning is optional.
Presentation length: One 90-minute session consisting of a chair and up to four debaters.
Proceedings paper: Debate chairs may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages. The paper should provide an overview of the issues to be discussed during the debate and may include material provided by the participants. Individual debaters will not receive instructions for preparing a proceedings paper.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract and 2000-word summary of the debate describing its objectives and importance.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: DEMONSTRATION
Description: Demonstrations provide an intimate, interactive forum for acquainting audience members with new hardware, software, research techniques, and so forth, often through hands-on experience or a video. Please note that demonstrations are not alternatives to exhibits; therefore, commercial or sales-oriented demonstration proposals will not be accepted.

Presenters will be provided with table space and an easel. Computers (Macintosh or PC) will be provided on request. It is the presenter's responsibility to supply alternative or additional equipment, if needed, and to ascertain that the demonstration will work on the provided equipment.
Presentation length: Presenters will be able to make repeated brief presentations during a 90-minute session, using a larger presentation area than is available in the Poster sessions.
Proceedings paper: Presenters of demonstrations may publish a proceedings paper of up to five pages.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract, 2000-word summary including objectives, description of subject matter, and possible applications. By postal mail or courier, provide one set of supplemental materials, such as photographs, diskettes, or videotapes, as appropriate, to assist in evaluation of the demonstrations and its hardware requirements. These materials will be returned after review on request.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: ALTERNATIVE FORMAT
Description: As the name suggests, the alternative format category is intended primarily for proposals that do not fall under or are not suited for the other presentation formats. Examples of alternative format presentations include (but are not limited to) on-site experiments, simulations, and other innovative approaches to present topics that would be of interest to HF/E professionals. The "Your 99 Seconds of Fame" session, in which speakers were given 99 seconds to summarize their work, is an excellent example of an alternative format presentation that is both creative and informative.
Presentation length: One 90-minute session.
Proceedings paper: None.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract and 2000-word summary of objectives, subject matter, presentation format, and expected benefits to attendees.
Where to submit: Appropriate Technical Group or General Sessions.

Presentation format: WORKSHOP
Description: Workshops are structured sessions emphasizing hands-on, how-to learning activities and are designed to provide participants with usable applied skills. Workshops also require a registration fee and are scheduled for either half-day or full-day sessions. Workshop proposals may cover technical skills such as advanced statistical techniques (e.g., causal modeling), methodologies (e.g., accident investigation techniques, design of dynamic measuring instruments, experimental design, interviewing techniques), or other professional skills (e.g., how to write procedures based on human factors guidelines, types of corporate-feasible usability testing, World Wide Web style sheet design).

Workshops are not extended lecture sessions but are expected to provide participants with practical skills and specific applications capabilities. Workshops with more practice emphasis and participant involvement activities tend to be much better received by participants.

Potential workshop participants include individuals new to the human factors profession, individuals who are experienced in one area of human factors but who wish to learn new skills in other areas, and, those who wish to enhance their skills in their area of specialization. Because a single workshop cannot address all of these audiences, proposals should articulate the level of knowledge, skills, and experience a participant should have (e.g., novice, experienced), as well as the knowledge, skills, and/or experience he or she will acquire as a result of participating in the workshop. The workshop organizer is responsible for submitting the proposal and for coordinating with any additional instructors.

North Carolina State University will provide Continuing Education Units for attendees who request them (a form will be provided with handout materials); 0.3 CEU is granted for half-day and 0.6 for full-day workshops. Final acceptance of the workshop is contingent on the receipt of suitable course materials by the due date (to be included in the tentative acceptance letter). Furthermore, even after acceptance, workshops are subject to cancellation if underenrolled by September 29.
Presentation length: All workshops are scheduled for Monday, October 16. Workshops may be presented in one three-hour session in the morning or afternoon or in two three-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. An honorarium of $500 will be granted to the organizers of each three-hour session and $1000 to organizers of each six-hour session.
Education and Training Committee-sponsored workshops: The Education and Training Committee is sponsoring one or more workshops that focus on the primary education and training needs identified by HFES members in the Committee's 2003 Survey. If the subject matter is on the E&T list, the presenter may be eligible for an additional honorarium.

Overall, more than 50% of survey respondents (of a total of 933) indicated that educational programming on the following HF/E content areas is needed: display, GUI, signage; HCI; cognition; sensation-perception; situation awareness; training; and expert systems. Respondents also indicated that skills training in these areas are needed: task and cognitive task analysis, simulation methods and tools, statistics and data analysis, test and evaluation methods, usability analysis, applying human factors/ergonomics principles, workload measurement, and modeling. Proposals for workshops in these areas are highly desired and urgently solicited.
Proceedings paper: None.
Materials to submit: 150-word abstract and additional details as requested in this linked document (summary, presenter bios, date/time requested, etc.).
Where to submit: Workshops.

HFES TECHNICAL GROUPS

Under the auspices of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society are 22 technical groups that are concerned with the human factors aspects of specific application areas. Descriptions of these groups may be found at the HFES Web site.

Some technical groups have indicated an interest in receiving proposals on specific topics or areas, as noted here..

The COMPUTER SYSTEMS TECHNICAL GROUP encourages lectures, posters, panels, symposia, and demonstrations that address the design and usability of computer systems and their broader environment. Relevant content could include laboratory studies, historical perspectives, case/field studies, reviews, demos, conceptual models, and debates. Especially relevant topics for this HFES 50th anniversary year include historical perspectives on computing, cooperative displays for disaster relief, remote usability testing, visualization, cross-cultural issues, eye tracking, and novel/emerging usability evaluation methods. More traditional papers on input systems, usability studies, and cosponsored sessions are also encouraged.

The ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN TECHNICAL GROUP encourages lectures, posters, discussion panels, invited symposia, and demonstrations that address the relationship between human behavior and the designed environment design. Common areas of research and interest include ergonomic aspects of design inside and outside the home, office, or commercial or industrial settings. Topics may include but are not limited to signage, wayfinding, noise, lighting, temperature, workplace/workstation design, interior/exterior design, and architecture. Relevant content could include laboratory studies, historical perspectives, case/field studies, reviews, demos, conceptual models, and debates. Especially relevant topics for this HFES 50th anniversary year include historical perspectives on environmental design. More traditional papers and cosponsored sessions are also encouraged.

The HEALTH CARE TECHNICAL GROUP is interested in maximizing the contributions of human factors and ergonomics to a broad spectrum of health care-related system, including EMT/EMS, pharmacy, nursing, home care, physician-related, and the quality-of-life issues for people who are functionally impaired. We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all health care-related disciplines regarding evaluation, development, implementation, or measurement of health care interventions, technologies, and devices.

The INTERNET TECHNICAL GROUP encourages lectures, posters, discussion panels, invited symposia, and demonstrations that address the design and usability of systems that rely on the Internet and the Web for transmission and use. Relevant content could include theoretical studies or applications and case studies that deal with Web-based interfaces, mobile and wireless applications, distributed communication and collaboration, and other topics related to the use of Internet technologies. Especially relevant topics for this HFES 50th anniversary year include historical perspectives on the evolution of the Internet and organized symposia, panels, and debates on critical channel decisions such as e-mail types (Web, corporate, and mobile), document formats for collaboration (PDF, Office, etc.) and others. We are also very interested in cosponsored sessions, such as medical informatics with the Health Care Technical Group or digital file sharing with the Forensics Professional Group.

PROGRAM CHAIR INFORMATION

Do not send proposals directly to the Program Chairs listed below. All submissions must be uploaded to the HFES 2006 Submission site. See Step-by-Step Instructions. In the online submission system, when you select one of the following technical areas in the pull-down menu, your proposal is automatically directed to the chair of that area.

If you are not sure which category fits the subject matter in your proposal, contact the program chair(s) in the categories that best represent your topic. If none is suitable, submit the proposal to General Sessions.

Seeking Proposal Reviewers

If you are willing to serve as a proposal reviewer, please contact the program chair for the Technical Group(s) that fits your area(s) of expertise.

Technical Program Committee

Barrett Caldwell, Chair
Purdue University
765/494-5412
bscaldwell@purdue.edu

General Sessions
Cheryl A. Bolstad
SA Technologies
410/638-6447
cheryl@satechnologies.com

Special Sessions
Ronald Boring
Idaho National Laboratory
208/526-0966
ronald.boring@inl.gov

Student Forum
Geb Thomas
University of Iowa
319/335-5936
gthomas@icaen.uiowa.edu

Workshops
Michelle L. Rogers
VA GAPS Center
513/861-3100 x5543
michelle.rogers@med.va.gov

2006 TECHNICAL GROUP PROGRAM CHAIRS

Aerospace Systems
Frank Durso
Texas Tech University
806/742-3711 x 259
frank.durso@ttu.edu

Aging
Beth Meyer
Semilla Consulting
303/541-6111
bethmeyer@mindspring.com

Cognitive Engineering & Decision Making
Catherine Burns
University of Waterloo
519/888-4567 x3903
c4burns@uwaterloo.ca

Communications
Benjamin Knott
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
937/255-0866
benjamin.knott@wpafb.af.mil

Computer Systems
Joseph H. Goldberg
Oracle Corporation
650/607-6020
joe.goldberg@oracle.com

Education
Karen Young
North Carolina State University
919/513-4855
kryoung@choroid.com

Environmental Design
ConneMara Bazley
970/963-3718 (office)
970/704-0773 (home)
cbazley@yahoo.com

Forensics Professional
Jay G. Pollack
Crown Equipment Corporation
937/681-0740
pollack@erinet.com

Health Care
F. Jacob (Jake) Seagull
University of Maryland
410/706-1859
jseag001@umaryland.edu

Human Performance Modeling
Robert Feyen
Purdue University
765/494-5419
rfeyen@purdue.edu

Individual Differences in Performance
James Szalma
University of Central Florida
407/823-0383
jszalma@mail.ucf.edu

Industrial Ergonomics
Sean Gallagher
NIOSH
412/385-6445
sfg9@cdc.gov

Internet
Marc L. Resnick
Florida International University
305/348-3537
resnickm@fiu.edu

Macroergonomics
Delia Grenville
650/773-9857
degrenvi@msn.com

Perception & Performance
Jocelyn Keillor
Defence R&D Canada
416/635-2187
jocelyn.keillor@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

Product Design
Steven Belz
Eastman Kodak Company
585/588-8831
steven@belzfamily.com

Safety
Steve Arndt
Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.
571/227-7233
sarndt@exponent.com

Surface Transportation
Christopher Monk
George Mason University
703/993-3408
cmonk@gmu.edu

System Development
Janae Lockett-Reynolds
U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center
jan.lockett-reynolds@navy.mil

Test and Evaluation
Lawrence Hettinger
Northrop Grumman Information Technology
978/772-1017
lhettinger@yahoo.com

Training
Florian Jentsch
University of Central Florida
407/882-0304
fjentsch@ucf.edu

Virtual Environments
Ronald Mourant
Northeastern University
617/373-3931
mourant@gmail.com

Technical Program Committee

Chair
Barrett Caldwell

Workshops
Michelle L. Rogers

COTG Liaison
Ben-Tzion Karsh

Special Sessions
Ronald Laurids Boring

Student Forum
Geb W. Thomas

General Sessions
Cheryl A. Bolstad

Posters
Haydee M. Cuevas

Quality
Marc L. Resnick

Education & Training Committee Liaison
Mark D. Lee

Council of Technical Groups Liaison
Philip J. Smith