Designing for People
This conference is organised by AKTIVE, Advancing Knowledge of Telecare for Independence and Vitality in later life. They will disseminate research from AKTIVE and other Assisted Living Innovation Platform projects and obtain feedback and insights from stakeholders in the telecare and wider assisted living industry.
This conference is free to attend but registration is mandatory. See more information about the conference and a link to register.
The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics (ACPOHE) conference theme is “Long term conditions at work”.
The conference is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and practical skills to meet the challenges of the management of these increasingly more common conditions. Keynote speakers: Kim Burton, Dr Venerina Johnston, Liz Egan, Professor John Harrison, Michiel Reneman, Heather Watson, Dr Remko Soer. Presentations by our keynote speakers, breakout workshops including one on seating, registered membership surgery, meet your local ACPOHE CPD group.
The Congress will equip you with a practical toolkit to inspire and empower staff, and implement tangible solutions to clinical issues.
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This 1 day course is designed to provide DSE assessors with a structured and holistic approach to DSE assessments.
London – Novotel – 12th June
Leeds – Novotel Central – 17th June
Manchester – Novotel Central – 18th June
Birmingham – Etc Venues – 21st June
London – Novotel – 2nd July
This 2 day training course is for health professionals and physiotherapists to gain an understanding of how to perform a basic ergonomic assessment in the workplace. Read more
The fourth IEHF Early Career Research Symposium (formerly the Doctoral Consortium) will provide an opportunity for postgraduate research students and early career researchers and practitioners studying and working in areas related to ergonomics and human factors to meet each other and learn about each others’ research interests and activities.
This year, as well as the change to the event name, we have altered the event format to ensure that it is as relevant as possible to all PhD students and early career ergonomics/human factors researchers and practitioners. Our first change is to encourage current PhD students as well as recent graduates. We hope this will enable the continuation of the community building activities that have been led by the Early Career Researchers Special Interest Group. We would still like PhD students to present their work, and the day will also include workshops and panel sessions led by senior experts.
Secondly, the CHI+Med project (www.chi-med.ac.uk), a major project examining HCI in a medical context, is sponsoring a specialist doctoral consortium on the day after the Research Symposium, 14th June 2013. Doctoral students (PhD/EngD) who are studying in areas related to human factors for safety-critical systems are invited to apply for this event. The CHI+MED project is also sponsoring a dinner on the Thursday evening for all PhD students who are attending either the IEHF Research Symposium or the CHI+MED Doctoral Consortium.
Abstract submission
We invite doctoral students (PhD/EngD) to submit a short, 3000 character abstract, stating a preference for which day you’d like to present at (depending on your research topic), by Thursday 2nd May. These will be reviewed by two independent reviewers. Students will be notified in late April whether their paper has been accepted for an oral or poster presentation, and whether for the IEHF Early Career Research Symposium or the CHI+MED Doctoral Consortium day. The decision about the day will depend on your indicated preference and also on the fit within the overall two-day programme. All participants are welcome at a dinner (free to PhD students, £30 for others), sponsored by CHI+MED, on the Thursday evening, and reasonable travel and accommodation costs will be covered by CHI+MED for students selected to present on the Friday.
We know that different PhD students will be at different stages of their research, so we encourage you to write about a small part of your research that demonstrates how your activities will fulfil the overall aims of your PhD topic. It can be fairly tricky to describe a whole PhD in 3000 characters, so we recommend you don’t attempt this but instead choose a focus! See this as an opportunity to get feedback on your work, whether it is the theoretical framework that you are using or a specific study that you would like to present. All submissions accepted as posters will be invited to participate in our quick-fire poster presentation, so everyone who attends will get a chance to let colleagues know about their research.
Students will also be welcome to bring along any technologies, systems or products that they are developing to demonstrate either during their talks or informally during the breaks and lunch interval. Our colleagues at UCL will also offer a guided tour of their research labs.
The event is intended to provide a constructive and supportive forum for discussion of research ideas and opportunities, and to strengthen the community of researchers in ergonomics and human factors, with a particular focus this year on research on the design and use of safety-critical systems.
Event cost and booking
The IEHF is running the Thursday event on a not-for-profit basis, so IEHF members who are PhD students or early career researchers/ practitioners within three years of graduation can attend the one day Research Symposium for £50, non-members for £75. There is an additional charge of £30 to attend the evening meal (though PhD students for free).
Those selected to attend (for free) the Friday CHI+MED Doctoral Consortium will also receive the meal on Thursday, and reasonable travel and accommodation expenses. They can also choose to attend the Thursday IEHF Research Symposium for £50.
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We are delighted that the IEHF Early Career Research Symposium continues to attract students from across the country, and has helped them to form their own network in the form of a Special Interest Group that is linking with ergonomics and human factors students internationally. We are also pleased to announce that the University of Leeds has agreed to host the event in 2014, but are happy to take any offers of colleagues to host in 2015! If any students or supervisors are interested in helping with the organisation of this event either this year or in the future then please email Sarah Sharples, email sarah.sharples@nottingham.ac.uk.
Conference Organising Committee: Ann Blandford, Simon Hodder, Jo Iacovides, Sarah Sharples, Natasha Merat, Chris Vincent, Rebecca Charles, Mark Young, Sue Hull
Turning alarm management and HMI standards into robust control room operations.
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A one day event giving you the chance to understand the reasoning behind selection and use of personal protective equipment, its ‘wearability’ and its effect on human temperature regulation.
This is the first IEHF President’s Conference.
This conference will look at the challenges facing both passenger and freight rail and discuss how to meet increasing demand and strained capacity in the future. Delegates will hear updates on the latest rail projects, where efficiencies have been gained and what can be learned, and what is needed to move our rail system forward.
