Paper Sessions

Join us Thursday afternoon, April 10th, to hear the panelists discuss "Strategies for Accelerating User Research While Ensuring Impactful Insights." As the event moderator, Christy Harper will be joined by talented panelists who include Ron Vutpakdi, Michelle Spinelli, Zachary Schulte, and Hira Qarni.

Analyzing Patterns of Task Execution: A Statistical Investigation of Work-As-Done Using Worker Interactions with Procedures 

Atif Ashraf (Texas A&M University)

Assessing the Reliability of 3- and 5-Minute Psychomotor Vigilance Tasks in Occupational Environments

David Nartey (Texas A&M University)

Comparing the Impact of Regular and Ergonomic Keyboards on Users’ Discomfort and Task Performance

Guner Kilic (Lamar University)

Evaluating the Effects of Additional Backpack Straps on User's Discomfort

Md Mahabub Hasan (Lamar University)

Investigating the Impact of Procedural Complexity on Performance

Yehee Park (Texas A&M University)

The Role of Golf Swing Wrist Kinematics in Controlling Ball Flight Height in Partial Shots

Jacob Lindh (Lamar University)

Double Trouble: The Effect of Size on Simultaneous Time-to-Collision Estimations of Two Approaching Vehicles

Myriam Oliver (Rice University)

Examining Driver Vigilance in Partially Automated Vehicles: The Impact of Push Notifications

Aleksei Proskurin (Texas Tech University)

Influence of Auditory Information on Drivers’ Abilities to Extrapolate Motion of a Lead Vehicle in a Traffic Environment

Christine Petersen (Rice University)

Multimodal Attention: Can Dual Coding Reduce the Vigilance Decrement?

Jayashri Prakash (Rice University)

Shaping Perception: How Mixed Shapes Influence Visual Grouping

Shrreya Aagarwal (Rice University)

9:30 AM

Failed counterfactual interventions: Are workers naturally generating counterfactual thoughts after experiencing incidents?

Jason Schultz (Texas A&M University)

Human Factors Research in Spaceflight Analogs

Michael Merta (Leidos at NASA JSC)

12:30 AM

The Impact of Lunar Communication Delays on Individual and Team Performance

Kritina Holden (Leidos at the NASA Johnson Space Center)

Uncovering Patterns in Visual Attention: Clustering and Feature Selection for Predicting Military Mission Commander Performance

Hyun-Gee Jei (Texas A&M University)

For our keynote address, we are thrilled to announce that Drs. Deborah Boehm-Davis and Wayne Gray will be presenting. Both Dr. Boehm-Davis and Dr. Gray have long been influential in Human Factors and Ergonomics. They have a story to tell of their friendship, careers in academia and industry and service to HFES. Be sure to join us on April 11, 2025, for this wonderful event. Drs. Boehm-Davis and Dr. Gray will live-stream present to the five HFES Regional Meetings.

Please join Farzan Sasangohar, PhD from Texas A&M University as he moderates this esteemed panel that includes Mica Endsley of SA Technologies Inc., Chris Miller of SMART Technologies, Cleotilde Gonzalez of Carnegie Mellon University and Patrick Dunn of the American Heart Association. This interactive panel will discuss the Impact of AI.

A Longitudinal Evaluation of an Ambient Scribe Solution for Medical Providers

Alec Smith (Solventum)

Advancing Hypertension Self-Care with Automated Digital Health Coaching

Jesus Carrillo Leal (Texas A&M University)

Mapping dementia caregiver journeys to the NIMHD health disparities framework: Opportunities for dementia caregiving interventions

Juliana Guevara (University of Texas at El Paso)

Real-Time Stress Monitoring, Detection, and Management in College Students: A Wearable Technology and Machine-Learning Approach

Alan Ta (Texas A&M University)

Young Adults' Perception of Privacy and Security Regarding Online Healthcare Platforms

Shababa Matin (Rice University)

 ​Automating Insights, Refining Surveys, and Accelerating Analysis with Gen AI

Natalia Russi-Vigoya (IBM)

Double-Check for Democracy: Exploring Interventions for Ballot Error Detection

Alexandra Xu (Rice University)

Synthetic User, Actionable Insights: Exploring the Future of UX Research with AI-Generated Participants

Jessica Fan (Born Group)

User-Centered Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Partially Automated Vehicles: What Do Drivers Think?

Katherine Garcia (Rice University)