View photos of the October 5, 2021 awards session here.

Main Society Awards

Paul M. Fitts’ Education Award

Awardee:  Nancy Currie Gregg

For broad impact as mentor and inspirational figure on generations of HF/E scientists and engineers and ongoing dedicated effort and impact as a professor of practice within the classroom

Subcommittee Chair: Anne McLaughlin

A.R. Lauer Safety Award

Awardee: Dennis Beringer

For extensive research and design efforts on General Aviation (GA) and simulation

Subcommittee Chair: Valerie Gawron

Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award

Awardees: Richard Holden &  Rupa Valdez

For development and advancement of innovative applications of human factors and ergonomics focused on patients’ role in their own healthcare

Subcommittee Chair: David Cochran

William C. Howell Young Investigator Award

Awardee: Farzan Sasangohar

For research “has led to the emergence of a field called disaster ergonomics.”

Subcommittee Chair:  Nancy Cooke

Bentzi Karsh Early-Career Service Award

Awardee:  Farzan Sasangohar

For commitment and success in service to HF/E and the society and a steady stream of service roles, many at high levels and requiring a high-workload

Subcommitte Chair: Enid Montague

Alphonse Chapanis Student Paper Award Finalists

History Trails Assist in the Detection of Hostile Intentions

Colleen E. Patton, Christopher D. Wickens, C.A.P. Smith, Benjamin A. Clegg; Colorado State University

The Effectiveness of Adaptive Training for Stress Inoculation in a Simulated Astronaut Task

Tor Finseth, Michael C. Dorneich, Nir Keren, Warren Franke, Stephen Vardeman, Jonathan Segal, Andrew Deick, Elizabeth Cavanah, & Kelly Thompson; Iowa State University

SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of Synthetic Task Environment for Studies on Spear Phishing Attacks

Tianhao Xu, Kuldeep Singh, Prashanth Rajivan; Carnegie Mellon University & University of Washington

Winning Entry:  SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of Synthetic Task Environment for Studies on Spear Phishing Attacks - Tianhao Xu, Kuldeep Singh, Prashanth Rajivan; Carnegie Mellon University & University of Washington

Alphonse Chapanis Award Subcommittee Chair: Kapil Chalil Madathil
 

Journal Article Awards

Best Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Article Award

“Improving Analytic Reasoning via Crowdsourcing and Structured Analytic Techniques”

Tim Van Gelder, Aril Kruger, Sujai Thomman, Richard de Rozario, Elizabeth Silver, Morgan Saletta, Ashley Barnett, Richard Sinnott, Glenn Tesla Jayaputera, Mark Burgman

Journal Editor: Jan Maarten Schraagen

Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Article Award

“An Experimental Validation of Masking in IEC 60606-1-8:2006 – Compliant Alarm Sounds”

Matthew Bolton, Xi Zheng, Meng Li, Judy Edworthy, Andrew Boyd

Subcommittee Chairs:  Jason Saleem and Joel Suss

Journal Editor: Patricia DeLucia

Best Ergonomics in Design Article Award

“Designing a First Responder’s Emergency Response Kit for Motor-Vehicle Collisions”

Yuval Bitan, Amit Shreiber, Gili Zafon, Eli Jaffe

Journal Editor: Rammohan Maikala

Best Student Paper in Ergonomics in Design Article Award, sponsored by Brian Peacock

“Explaining Supervised Learning Models: A Preliminary Study on Binary Classifiers”

Xiaomei Wang

Journal Editor: Rammohan Maikala

Human Factors Prize

“An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Teal-Time Workload Measurement”

Jing Yan, Juan Antonio Barragan, Jason Farrow, CP Sundaram, Juan Wachs, Denny Yu

Human Factors Prize Chair: Xudong Zhang

Arnold M. Small and Betty M. Sanders President's Distinguished Service Award

Presented to Waldemar Karwowski

For career-long contributions that have brought honor to the profession and to the the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Bestowed by HFES President Peter Hancock
 

Congratulations to each of this year's award recipents!