Submitting Your Workshop Proposal
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 engage and 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 five weeks prior to the 52nd Annual Meeting.
Presentation Length
All workshops are scheduled for Monday, September 22. 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 HFES 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 (refer to the survey summary). 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.
NOTE: Summaries of workshops are not published in the annual meeting proceedings.
Materials to Submit
For workshop proposals only, it is not necessary to format the proposal in two-column format. Submit your abstract and additional required details as specified in this linked document (summary, presenter bios, date/time requested, etc.).
Where to Submit
Submit your proposal only to the Workshops Chair.
Step-By-Step Instructions
- Prepare the proposal in a single-spaced document (e.g., Microsoft Word, PDF).
- Go to the HFES Submissions site. If you don't already have a login ID from a previous meeting, create a username and password and save the information in a safe place; you'll need it to log in again to check status.
- Select Workshop from the Presentation Type pull-down menu at the online submission site.
- Select Workshop from the Technical Area Pull-down menu.
- Indicate a secondary technical area by selecting one item from the pull-down menu. This will help the Workshops Chair identify suitable reviewers.
- Select either "Student Work" or "Nonstudent Work."
- 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.
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 online database.
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