Eight chapter members attended the 14th Annual Houston Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Symposium held this past weekend at Rice University.  

Texas Tech University swept the student awards. Theresa Nguyen won the best student poster award. Chapter vice president David Newton won the best student paper award.  In total, TTU students presented 7 posters and 2 talks.

Texas Tech Human Factors professor Dr. DeLucia gave the keynote speech titled, "Does the Field of Human Factors/Ergonomics Matter?"

Congratulations to our student award winners, and thank you as always to the Houston HFES chapter who works hard to put together this symposium every year. 


The talks and posters presented by Texas Tech students are listed below with the presenter's name emphasized: 

Driver Vigilance in Automated Vehicles: Effects of Task Demand - David C Newton, Texas Tech University, Eric T Greenlee, Texas Tech University, Patricia R DeLucia, Texas Tech University

Are Social Psychological Scales Appropriate for Measuring Robot Anthropomorphism? - Miriam E Armstrong, Texas Tech University, Keith S Jones, Texas Tech University, Alec J Stinnett, Texas Tech University

Effects of Cell Phone Conversation on Looming Threshold While Driving
Bradley Weaver, Texas Tech University, Patricia DeLucia, Texas Tech University, Jason Jupe, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc.

Does restricting an observer’s exploration degrade their judgments of others reaching abilities? 
Nicholas A Garcia, Texas Tech University, Keith S Jones, Texas Tech University, Benjamin P Widlus, Texas Tech University

Event-related Cerebral Hemodynamics as a Neuroergonomic Measure of Task Demands               
Emily L Maw, Texas Tech University, Eric Greenlee, Texas Tech University

Does vigilance get your blood pumping? Transcranial Doppler sonography, vigilance task demands, and compensatory effort 
Tiffany Lui, Texas Tech University, Eric Greenlee, Texas Tech University

Vigilance Tasks Are Stressful, But Do They Make You Sick? An Exploration of the Relationship Between Task Induced Stress and Simulator Sickness 
William G Matthews, Texas Tech University, Eric Greenlee, Texas Tech University

The Restorative Potential of Natural Imagery: A Replication of Berto (2005)
William G Matthews, Texas Tech University, Michaela Knapp, Abigail Boudreaux, Raelyn Curiel, Brittany Neilson, Martina Klein, Texas Tech University

Perceived and Achieved Restoration: Restoration Potential of Different Components of Nature Environments 
Theresa Nguyen, Texas Tech University, Brittany Neilson, Texas Tech University, Martina Klein, Texas Tech University

One member of our HFES student chapter, Miriam Armstrong, attended and presented at the 2017 Robotics: Science and Systems conference held last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Armstrong received a travel award to attend the third Women in Robotics Workshop at R:SS, and during the workshop presented a poster titled "Robots are Dehumanized on the Mechanistic (Human Nature) Dimension." Armstrong is a PhD candidate in the Texas Tech Human Factors Psychology program and is the HFES chapter president.

Congratulations to chapter member Brittany Neilson for recieving the NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortum Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Neilson is a PhD candidate in the Human Factors Psychology program. This is her third time being awarded this fellowship.

This past weekend, six student chapter members attended this year's Southwest Regional Human Factors and Ergonomics Symposium in San Antonio, Texas. Chapter president Miriam Armstrong was on the symposium planning committee, and all other attending members presented posters on their research. Well done to all involved!

Alexandra Krenek's poster was titled, "What should Cybersecurity Students Learn in School? Results from Interviews with Cyber Professionals."

Ben Widlus and Max Ogunfunwa's poster was titled, "Marking and Radial Menu Selection with Motion-Tracked 3D Pointing Devices in Virtual Reality."

Brittany Neilson's poster was titled, "Can the Dose Effect of Water Associated with Feelings of Restoration Be Replicated? Not Entirely."

David Newton's poster was titled, "Driver Vigilance in Automated Vehicles: Hazard Detection Failures are a Matter of Time."