Co-sponsored by the Federation and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

On November 17, the Federation and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) held a jointly-sponsored Science Forum addressing the current status and future progress of homeland security applications of human factors research.  Human factors researchers are eager to apply their findings to homeland security, one of the nation's top priorities, but are human factors research findings being properly applied and implemented by the government? What kinds of research opportunities are currently available for researchers interested in contributing their expertise to the Department of Homeland Security's mission? Seventy-five Forum participants spent the day discussing these issues, amongst others.
 
The Forum was divided into two segments: The morning session was dedicated to a panel of human factors researchers discussing both the potential applications of their research toward the improvement of the nation's homeland security and the need to increase the presence of human factors research within those federal agencies linked to homeland security.  Members of our morning panel were: Drs. Nancy J. Cooke, Arizona State University; Thomas F. Sanquist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Peter Hancock, University of Central Florida; Gary Klein, Klein Associates; and Missy Cummings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Our afternoon session highlighted a panel of federal agency representatives sharing information on their agencies current and future opportunities for behavioral science researchers.  Our afternoon panel members were:  Drs. Joshua Rubinstein, Transportation Security Laboratory, Department of Homeland Security; Elizabeth L. Grossman, Research Subcommittee, House of Representatives Science Committee; William Grosshandler, Building and Fire Research Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Paul (Wyn) Jennings, Department of Homeland Security/National Science Foundation.
 
This panel was followed by a group discussion of ways to optimally integrate human factors and ergonomic research into the work that is currently being done on homeland security and discussing strategies to increase communication between researchers and federal agencies.

Abstracts: Click here to view talk abstracts for this event.

Agenda: Click here to view the agenda for this event.

Speaker Bios: Click here to view speaker bios for this event.

Power Points:
-- Nancy J. Cooke, Arizona State University
-- Missy Cummings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-- William Grosshandler, Building and Fire Research Lab, National Institute of Standards    and Technology
-- Peter Hancock, University of Central Florida
-- Paul (Wyn) Jennings, Department of Homeland Security/National Science Foundation
-- Gary Klein, Klein Associates
-- Wendy Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology
-- Joshua Rubinstein, Transportation Security Laboratory Department of Homeland Security
-- Thomas F. Sanquist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory