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
Naturalistic Decision Making: Models, Methods and People
Thursday, April 9 | 11:00 a.m. ET
Presenters: Brian Moon
Moderator: Gaurav Nanda, PhD
Naturalistic decision making (NDM) offers a paradigm for understanding and designing for proficient performance. Its 40-year history has produced numerous influential descriptive models and efficacious tools that complement HF, resiliency and human-centered design. Mr. Moon will provide an overview of NDM and offer recommendations for closer relations between the NDM Association and CEDM
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Brian Moon
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Brian Moon is chief technology officer for Perigean Technologies and executive director of the Naturalistic Decision Making Association. As a leading practitioner and researcher in the field of expertise management, Mr. Moon applies naturalistic solutions to meet a range of organizational challenges, from the elicitation and capture of expert knowledge to the development of decision support and training systems that enable its effective and efficient application. He is the author of Darwin’s People: How Naturalists Explain Our Behavior, and inventor of The Plot Thickens, a decision practice experience. His clients have included numerous government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, including the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, consumer packaged goods companies, Westinghouse Electric Company, the New York Power Authority, Sandia National Laboratories and Southern Company.
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Gaurav Nanda
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Dr. Gaurav Nanda is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on applied machine learning, text mining, and intelligent decision support systems, with applications spanning safety, smart manufacturing and engineering education. He teaches courses in human factors, warehouse and inventory management, lean and sustainable systems, operations management and intelligent manufacturing.
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HF Lessons Learned: A Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Flight Test Accident Case Study
Tuesday, April 14 | 12:00 p.m. ET
Presenters: Mike Bromfield, PhD, CEng, CErgHF, FRAES, FHEA, SFTE(SM), MCIEHF, ISASI(M)
Moderator: Rodrigo Lopes Rose
This webinar reviews a hybrid-electric aircraft accident that occurred during flight testing under UK CAA experimental flight rules (“E‑Conditions”). The aircraft lost power in the pattern, and the crew identified the failure within 9 seconds but could not restore power. The pilot executed an off-airport landing, resulting in severe aircraft damage and no injuries.
HFACS was used to identify factors related to system design, experimental operations, and safety oversight. The findings informed updates to UK CAA experimental flight rules, including changes to flight-test organization, control use, display placement, and alerting.
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Dr. Mike Bromfield is an aerospace systems and human factors engineer with Myriad Business Ltd. and an honorary associate professor in aerospace at the University of Birmingham. He is a chartered engineer and chartered ergonomics and human factors specialist and a senior member and fellow of several professional bodies, including the Society of Flight Test Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
He holds a PhD in flight safety from Brunel University and a BSc in aeronautical engineering from the University of Bath. His work focuses on human factors, flight dynamics, flight testing and simulation. He has collaborated with organizations such as NASA, Uber Air, the Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority and multiple universities. He is a trained flight test engineer, a private pilot and author of more than 50 publications. |
Past Webinar Recordings
Workload by Design: How Visual Rating Scale Characteristics and the Reversed Performance Dimension Warp NASA‑TLX Response
March 6, 2026
Human Performance Modeling Technical Group Webinar: Computational Models of Human Performance: An Algebraic Equation Approach
Original Air Date: January 15, 2026
HCTG, HFTH and SSE Joint Webinar: Connecting Human Factors/Ergonomics Theory with Applications in Health Care: Physical Ergonomics and Exoskeletons in Surgery
Original Air Date: November 21, 2025
ACTG Webinar: Teaching LLMs to See, Hear, and Respond: A Technical Framework for Situation Awareness
Original Air Date: November 06, 2025
Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Webinar: From Student to Practitioner: Exploring Careers in Occupational Ergonomics (Part 3)
Original Air Date: September 18, 2025
Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Webinar: From Student to Professor: Exploring Careers in Occupational Ergonomics (Part 2)
Original Air Date: September 16, 2025
Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Webinar: Interdisciplinary Insights: Exploring Careers in Occupational Ergonomics (Part 1)
Original Air Date: September 11, 2025
Sustainability Technical Group Webinar: Human Factors in Sustainable Supply Chain
Original Air Date: September 10, 2025
Training Technical Group and Extended Reality Technical Group Webinar: Innovative Training Approaches to Evaluate and Enhance Human Performance
Original Air Date: August 13, 2025
Aerospace Systems Technical Group Webinar: Applying Human Factors Analysis in Designing Accessible Lavatories on Single-Aisle Aircraft
Original Air Date: August 13, 2025
HFES Perception and Performance Technical Group Webinar: Eye Tracking: How to Capture and Interpret User’s Point of View and Operator’s Gaze Strategies
Original Air Date: June 11, 2025
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Our webinars are delivered on a monhtly basis by subject matter experts, including HFES award winners, recent authors in Society publications, high-profile members and others conducting research or practice in key topical areas.
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