FPE 2025-2026 Impact Grants
The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics (FPE) is pleased to announce the availability of the FPE Impact Grants that aim to support small projects in the quest to develop professional ergonomics around the world. The funding preference will be given, but not limited to, applicants from developing countries (as defined by the United Nations) or proposals […]
Informal Work in Europe: Human Factors Perspectives and Challenges
Webinar 25th February, 2025, at 15:00 UTC Informal Work Webinar Series This webinar, organized by the IEA Informal Work TC, begins with an overview of the situation of informal work in Europe and then delves into the specific case example of sex work/prostitution in Germany. The example highlights the difficulties of legally defining what is work […]
Informal Work and Ergonomics: Experiences from Chile and Ecuador
Webinar on January 29, 2025, 16:00 UTC (13:00 Chile, 11:00 Ecuador) This webinar organized by the IEA Informal Work TC in collaboration with the Universidad de Atacama and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador will present an overview of the situation of informal work in Latin America with emphasis on Chile and Ecuador and then […]
Council Meeting 2024
Just before the 22nd Triennial Congress of the IEA the annual general meeting of the IEA Council was held. The Council consists of representatives of the 55 federated members and the IEA elected officers. The Chairs of the standing committees gave reports on the activities of the hundreds of volunteers that make up the technical […]
CALL FOR IEA AWARDS NOMINATIONS – DEADLINE EXTENDED
IEA AWARDS 2024 ALL NOMINATIONS ARE DUE BY 30 JANUARY, 2024 2024 will be a banner year for IEA Awards. We expect to present 8 different IEA Triennial Awards as well as the annual IEA Fellow Awards, IEA/Tsinghua Awards, and IEA/Kingfar Awards for students and early career researchers. In 2024 we will make the first […]
Ergonomics Month
October is Global Ergonomics Month. We would like to showcase a great initiative by our members in Iran, who climbed the highest mountain in the country, Tochal Peal (3’963 metres), to promote ergonomics. Our thanks to Payam Khanlari and his colleagues for the effort and to the Iranian Ergonomics Society and the Ergonomics Student Magazine […]
The future of work and the challenges for HFE from Brazil
The goal of this on-line webinar series is to bring you perspectives on the envisaged challenges arising from the Future of Work for HFE from around the World. In this webinar we will be hearing about the future of work from Brazil and the challenges that this raises for HFE. Zoom link for registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_66-MAxd4Q_eI4TBYrDIuwQ Registration […]
From Algorithms to Emotions: Explainable Artificial Intelligence’s Affective Revolution
Join this Webinar! Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains a topical issue as society tries to figure out how best to integrate AI in a way that is most compatible with humans. Consequently, various sub-themes and paradigms have been emerging to help resolve some of the areas of concern and knowledge gaps. One of these is Explainable […]