Best Student Paper Award

Call for 2026 K-HFES Best Student Paper Award

K-HFES is proud to announce the call for the 2026 Best Student Paper Awards. These awards recognize outstanding papers first-authored by students of Korean heritage and presented at ASPIRE 2026—the HFES International Annual Meeting dedicated to advancing systems and practices through innovation, research, and education. Award recipients will be honored at the K-HFES business meeting, where all authors will receive a certificate, and the first author will be awarded a small honorarium.

K-HFES was established in 2019 to serve HF/E scholars and practitioners of Korean heritage in North America, including the United States and Canada. For more information, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/khfes.

Eligibility Criteria

• Be of Korean heritage and currently enrolled at an accredited institution in North America (U.S. or Canada).

• Be an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of submission.

• Be the first author and presenting author of a paper or poster accepted for ASPIRE 2026.

• Have not received the K-HFES Best Student Paper Award in previous years.

Application Materials:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• A full paper or extended abstract accepted for presentation at ASPIRE 2026

Review Criteria:

• Originality of the work

• Importance of the work to the field of Human Factors/Ergonomics

• Methodological rigor

• Overall quality of writing

Please submit your application materials to StudentAwards.KHFES@gmail.com by 5:00 PM (EST) on Friday, August 15th, 2026. You’re also welcome to send any application-related questions to this email address.

2026 K-HFES Best Student Paper Award Committee

Dr. Junho Park.

Dr. Jimin Kim

Winners of the Award

2026 Best Student Paper Award

Ruby Yeeun Kim, The Pennsylvania State University

Enhancing ADAS Training: Examining the Effects of Training Modes and Styles on Driver Knowledge and Decision-Making

2026 Honorable Mention

Jihyun Kim, University of Calgary

Formative Modeling of Multi-Agent AI-Based AR Decision Support for Rural Emergency Department Triage

2025 Best Student Paper Award

Hyesun Chung, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Trust in the Team as a Function of Trust in Individual Agents: Scale Validation and Modeling

2025 Honorable Mention

Cherin Lim, University of Washington

Measuring Trust Degradation in AVs: Opportunities and Challenges Using Body Posture and Deep Learning

2025 Honorable Mention

Sehee Jung, North Carolina State University

Toward Full Automation of the Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation

2024 Best Student Paper Award

Myeongkyu Lee, Purdue University

The Impact of System Confidence and Reliability on Drivers’ Decision-Making in Conditionally Automated Vehicles

2024 Honorable Mention

Doo Won Han, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Towards Integrated Takeover Performance Measurement: Validation of Frechet Distance as a Takeover Performance Metric

2023 Best Student Paper Award

Hayoun Moon, Virginia Tech

The Influence of Olfactory and Visual Stimuli on Students’ Performance and Mood in Virtual Reality Environment

2023 Honorable Mention

Mungyeong Choe, Virginia Tech

Feeling Your Way with Navibar: A Navigation System using Vibrotactile Feedback for Personal Mobility Vehicle Users

2023 Honorable Mention

Cherin Lim, University of Washington

Who hacked my car? Designing Autonomous Vehicles to Support Driver Response to Security Threats

2022 Best Student Paper Award

GeeBeum Park, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Public Perception of UAM: Are we ready for the new mobility that we have dreamed of?

2022 Honorable Mention

Youngjae Lee, Virginia Tech

Lessones Learned from a Preliminary Study of Non-Treadmill-Based Trip Training

2021 Best Student Paper Award

Junho Park, Texas A&M

A Novel Approach for Usability Evaluation of Mobile Applications

2021 Honorable Mention

Minji Yu, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Comparison of Portable 3D Face Scanning Technologies: A Pilot Study

2020 Best Student Paper Award

Hanjun Park, Virginia Tech

Effects of Using a Whole-Body Powered Exoskeleton on Physical Demands durinbg Manual Handling

2020 Honorable Mention

Min ji Kim, George Mason University

Does Long-Term Exposure to Robots Affect Mind Perception? An Exploratory Study

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