HFES webinars provide continuing education on a variety of topics and domains aligned with the interest areas of our technical groups. HFES webinars provide insights into the latest HF/E research and innovations. Our next webinars are listed below.
Upcoming Webinars
Exploration of “Inner” Space – what Spaceflight Reveals about Human Perception and Performance
Thursday, August 20 | 1:00 p.m. ET
Description: Sending humans to Mars and returning them safely to Earth will require not only new rocket engineering solutions, but also a better understanding of the effects of long-duration deep-space spaceflight on perception and sensorimotor control and the associated potential impacts on crew operational performance. In this webinar, Dr. Lee Stone, former NASA Senior Researcher for Human-Systems Integration, discusses how microgravity disrupts vestibular reflexes and spatial perception, how sensorimotor control adapts to altered gravity and how the induced environment of spaceflight not only represents operational risk to mission success but also offers an exceptional window into fundamental neuroscience principles of human brain sensorimotor function and plasticity. Dr. Stone also addresses the “real-world” challenges of running human-subjects research in space and provides his perspective on the overarching human-factors challenges of preparing for the crewed deep-space missions of tomorrow.
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Lee Stone, PhD
Lee Stone received a bachelor's degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, a master's degree in engineering from UC Berkeley, and a doctorate in neuroscience from UC San Francisco. After a National Research Council postdoctoral associateship in the Human Factors Division at Ames Research Center, he was hired as a research physiologist in the Life Sciences Division in 1990. He later joined the Human Systems Integration Division as a research psychologist, establishing and leading the Visuomotor Control Laboratory to examine human capabilities and limitations in vision and sensorimotor control. His work focused on the effects of altered gravitational environments and novel oculometric technologies for detecting and characterizing subclinical neural impairment. He retired in 2026 as the NASA senior researcher for human systems integration. This webinar presents his personal professional opinions after three decades as a neuroscience researcher and aerospace human factors engineer, and does not represent the position of NASA or the U.S. government.
Yusuke Yamani, PhD — Old Dominion University
Yusuke Yamani is a professor of psychology and civil and environmental engineering at Old Dominion University. He received bachelor's degrees in psychology and philosophy from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2008, a master's degree in human factors from the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010, and a doctorate in psychology from the same institution in 2013. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His research program focuses on basic and applied aspects of attention, perception, and cognition. His current work explores visual attention allocation in automated driving, human-automation trust and interaction, and sustained attention in visual workspaces. Yamani is a recipient of the University Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 21: Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology) and the Psychonomic Society.
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