University at Buffalo HFES Student Chapter

🎉 Huge congrats to our chapter for earning the 2025 HFES Student Chapter Gold Award!

WORKING SESSION WEDNESDAYS. Feel free to stop by and catch up on work in a co-working session! This will be a good opportunity to provide focused work time and peer chat. All are welcome!

Congrats to our senior members on receiving awards from the department🎉:
Zahra Vahedi, Graduate Student Service and Leadership Award
Setareh Kazemi Kheiri, Graduate Student Teaching Award

Join us this Friday 4/11 for a mentoring session to discuss research and study tips, especially useful as we approach the end of the semester:) coffee will be available

Based on the voting result of the best lectures, we have our winners:
Favorite Lecture: Choose the lecture that you enjoyed the most.
​​Taylor Kunkes – Making patient context concrete: Using abstraction hierarchy to examine contextual care in medication use
Most Innovative: Choose the lecture that you found to be the most innovative in terms of methods, approach, questions, or area of work
Elliot Biltekoff, Matthew Bolton - Computational Virtue Ethics for Understanding and Preventing Moral Injury
Ebru Kamis - Perception of Behavior and Personality in Robotic Vacuum Cleaners
Most Engaging: Choose the lecture that made it impossible to fall asleep, play with the dog or even get up to get a cup of coffee.
​Kate Kazlovich - Development and evaluation of a non-wearable intelligent multi-camera system for intraoperative video recording of open surgery.

Thanks for everyone's attending, speaking, presentation, and debates in IUW2021. See you in the next IUW!

See you at Dr.David S. Hurwitz's seminar tomorrow (Apr. 1st).

Remember to come to see what our faculty are currently doing in research.

Join us this Friday to learn more about the research happening in ISE!

IE Students the zoom link is in your email, all others interested please reach out to Lan (his email contact is below). Hope to see you all there!!

Hi everyone, merry Christmas! On Christmas Eve, the UB campus has a white Christmas with the snow came right about time. May your holidays to be bright and happy, and may all your Christmas wishes come true.

Thanks for everyone's engagement and contribution to UBHFES!

UB human factors and ergonomics club earns gold Mentorship, creativity and information dissemination are just some of the values that define the UB student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – and this year, are why the group received the Outstanding Student Chapter Award from the national organization. 

If you are interested in the latest on how a large local business enterprise is applying user experience design in their work, please join us for our joint IDSA CNY / WNY HFES chapter meeting on November 19th from 5-6pm.

I would encourage you to join this annual joint meeting, for learn cool stuff and get great connections.

Topic: User Experience Design at Xerox
Speaker: Dave Parsons
Date Thu, November 19, 2020
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Location: online
Register link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/user-experience-design-xerox-wny-hfesidsa-cny-event-tickets-128173060073