Northeast Region Preliminary Program

Preliminary Program
Time Session
8:30 a.m.

Registration (doors will open at 8:00 a.m.)

9:00 a.m.

Marc Egeth, Ph.D. (IdeaPlayground.org) - Conference Introduction: Humane Factors

9:15 a.m.

Bailey Herbstreit (Boston Consulting Group) - Quantifying Holistic Experiences

9:45 a.m. Angie Avera (Peloton) - Bridging UXR and Analytics for Better Product Decisions
10:15 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. National Opening Keynote Presentation:
Deborah Boehm-Davis, Professor Emeritus, George Mason University
Wayne Gray, Professor of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Ali Dhanaliwala (Penn Medicine / Radiology) - Surgery is not a game: human factors in medical extended reality device development

Jeffrey Vadala (Penn Medicine / Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab) - Co-creating augmented reality in West Philadelphia

Leo Barinov (Penn Medicine / Radiology): Helping doctors use AI for diagnostic decisions
 
2:00 p.m. National Panel on AI Tooling
3:00 p.m Local AI followup & response panel

Sarah Fairchild, Ph.D.: Do we need humans for human factors?

Pat Nolan (DesignThink): The Soul in the Circuit: The Harmonization of the Human and AI Design Process
3:45 p.m Break
4:00 p.m. Jamie Lyn Sawczyszyn & Hannah Nguyen (PhillyCHI) - UX Career Paths: Getting Over Imposter Syndrome and Finding Your Way
4:45 p.m. Ariel Ben-Amos (StreetBoxPHL) - Streets are for People! Towards a human centered urban transportation planning
5:30 p.m. Meeting concludes