Papers from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting

I recently received, and started reviewing, the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting (2009).  As always, there’s a wide variety of research topics covered.  Some of the more interesting papers I’ve reviewed so far include:

Teams

• Developing a Subjective Shared Situation Awareness Inventory for Teams
• Overcoming Bias in the Deliberations of Distributed Teams
• Supporting Expertise Coordination in Multidisciplinary Project Teams
• Team Cognition and External Representations: A Framework and Propositions for Supporting Collaborative Problem Solving

Safety

• Considering Trends among Industrial Accidents: A Preliminary Meta Analysis of HFACS Causal Factors across Industries

Education

• Evaluating and Designing Education: A Collaborative Effort Between Educators and Ergonomists
• Macroergonomics in Education: On Your Mark, Set, GO!

Health Care

• Healthcare Workers’ Perceptions of Information in the Electronic Health Record
• Medical Informatics: What contributions can human factors make?
• Improving the User Interface and Adoption of Online Personal Health Records
• Improving Communication of Health Status Information
• Development of an Integrated Model for Predicting Patient Compliance
• A Holistic Human Factors Evaluation Framework for the Design of Consumer Health Informatics Interventions

Human-Robot Interaction

• Autonomy and Automation Reliability in Human-Robot Interaction: A Qualitative Review
• Human-Robot Interaction: Issues in the Design of Interfaces for Work in Distant Environments
• More than a Servant: Self-Reported Willingness of Younger and Older Adults to having a Robot Perform Interactive and Critical Tasks in the Home

Interested readers can see the complete table of contents here (270 KB, .pdf).  Also, you can purchase a copy of the CD directly from HFES.

Finally, if you’re interested in learning more about the latest conference, visit the Human Factors Blog  for a six-part review: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.