Events

Alessandro Jatobá (AIDL lab) will be giving a talk on his Human Factors research during the last 1 year as a Visiting PhD Student at the University of Waterloo. Following his talk, a social will follow to say to goodbye to Alessandro. The talk will be on Wed June 3rd at 2:30 in E5 6111.

Dr. Jessica Cauchard, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University is visiting us on June 12th, Friday. She will give a talk "Projections.Vibrations.Interactions" at DC 2585, 11:30am-1pm. 
 

Affective communication and emotions are an important part of negotiations. Negotiation support and negotiation support systems, however, tend to neglect this aspect given measurement difficulties. In the presentation I will explore possibilities of "measuring" affect in communication and firstly show results of state of the art supervised machine learning techniques that could enable support systems to classify emotions expressed in ongoing negotiation communication.

46th annual conference of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE)

The Human Factors Engineering Inter-University Workshop (IUW) is an annual workshop for students to showcase their current and proposed research in human factors engineering and other related disciplines, including ergonomics, psychology, biomedical engineering, human-computer interaction, and user experience.

The first episode of our Student Research Rounds series will be held online using Microsoft Teams on February 4th, 2021 at 4-5PM EST. Student researchers from the Advanced Interface Design Lab will be giving an overview of their past and current projects in the field of Human Factors.

The second episode of our Student Research Rounds series will be held online using Microsoft Teams on March 4th, 2021 at 4-5PM EST.

Episode 3 of the Professor Lecture Series under the title "You, Me and the Technology" will be held online using Microsoft Teams on March 16, 2021 at 4-5PM (EST). 

The third episode of our Student Research Rounds series will be held online using Microsoft Teams on March 25th, 2021 at 4-5PM EST.

UW HFES Student Chapter is kickstarting the new term Spring 2021 with a new series named Alumni Experience Series. The first event of the series will feature Damla Kerestecioglu, a Research Manager at TD Canada Trust. The event is scheduled for May 27, Thursday between 4-5PM (EST).