Best Student Paper Award

Call for 2025 K-HFES Best Student Paper Award

K-HFES is proud to announce the call for the 2025 Best Student Paper Awards. These awards recognize outstanding papers first-authored by students of Korean heritage and presented at ASPIRE 2025—the HFES International Annual Meeting dedicated to advancing systems and practices through innovation, research, and education—taking place in Chicago, Illinois. 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 2020 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 2025.

• 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 2025

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, 2025. You’re also welcome to send any application-related questions to this email address.

2025 K-HFES Best Student Paper Award Committee

Dr. Jaejin Hwang

Dr. Hansol Rheem

Winners of this Award