9­14 August, 2009

Call for Proposals and Participation

About IEA 2009 Congress

Since it was first established 50 years ago, the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) has organized several congresses, with the 17 th event to be held in August 2009. The IEA Congress has become a respected forum for the substantive interchange of ideas in all areas of human factors and ergonomics. IEA 2009 is jointly organized by three federated societies of the IEA – Chinese Ergonomics Society, Ergonomics Society of Taiwan, and the Hong Kong Ergonomics Society. On the theme “Partnerships in Ergonomics – Changes, Challenges and Opportunities” IEA 2009 will be held in Beijing, China, from 9­14 August, 2009.

The objective of the congress is to provide a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners in the human factors and ergonomics sciences can frankly exchange and discuss their research ideas, techniques and applications. To realize this objective and to facilitate lively discussion and interaction, the format of the congress program is carefully structured.

While the number of participation is not limited, submitted papers will be peer‐reviewed and published by the IEA Press. IEA Congresses are totally self‐supported by registration income; therefore, funding support cannot be offered for participants. However, fees have been kept reasonable for students and participants from industrially developing countries. See www.iea2009.org for details.

Scientific Program

IEA Congress is recognized particularly for its high degree of discussion among the participants during the week long deliberation. Paper sessions are conducted in a variety of settings, from workshop‐like to forum‐style, hands‐on demonstrations, and typical oral presentations. The week's events consist of plenary lectures, advanced seminars, tutorials, workshops, open forums, task forces, symposia, and the daily presentation of accepted manuscripts which emphasize research and development activities. Below are program tracks organized by members of the IEA Technical Committees, and International Scientific Committee. The scope and coverage should enable greater participation and discussion.

Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEA Press.

Submissions must not have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere; all submissions undergo a peer referee process to determine their relevance, technical merit, and clarity. Technical Committee Tracks

Below are the main tracks of IEA Technical Committees and their Chairs. The Co‐Chair is either from the Technical Committee, or invited members from the International Scientific Committee. Read about the tracks in the IEA newsletter, starting May 2008 to know about its scope and coverage of topics.

ACTIVITY THEORY FOR WORK ANALYSIS IN DESIGN AEROSPACE HUMAN FACTORS Chair Pascal BÉGUIN, Chair Guy BOY, France [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Laura SEPPÄNEN, Finland Co‐Chair Frank DURSO, USA

AFFECTIVE ERGONOMICS AGING Chair Martin HELANDER, Chair Clas‐Hakan NYGARD, Finland [email protected] clas­[email protected] Co‐Chair Peter HANCOCK, USA Co‐Chair Masaharu KUMASHIRO, Japan Lin‐Lin CHEN, Taiwan

ANTHROPOMETRY AUDITORY ERGONOMICS Chair Johan MOLENBROEK, Netherlands Chair Ellen HAAS, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Kathleen ROBINETTE, USA Co‐Chair James BLISS, USA Mao‐Jiun WANG, Taiwan

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION CHILDREN AND SCHOOL ERGONOMICS Chair Henk VAN DER MOLEN, Netherlands Chair Karen JACOBS, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Ernst KONINGSVELD, Netherlands Co‐Chair Andree WOODCOCK, UK Scott SCHNEIDER, USA Clare POLLOCK,

FORENSICS AND INVESTIGATION GENDER AND WORK Chair Michael WOGALTER, USA Chair Karen MESSING, Canada [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Max HELY, Australia Co‐Chair Sandrine CAROLY, France

HEALTHCARE MANUFACTURING Chair Richard GOOSSENS, Netherlands Chair Waldemar, KARWOWSKI, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Peter BUCKLE, UK Co‐Chair John WILSON, UK Max LIANG, Taiwan

MINING MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER Chair Schu SCHUTTE, South Africa Chair Enrico OCCHIPINTI, [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Robin BURGESS‐LIMERICK, Australia Co‐Chair Wendy MACDONALD, Australia Elias APUD, Chile Rosnah MOHD YUSUFF, Malaysia

ONLINE COMMUNITIES ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT Chair Andrew THATCHER, South Africa Chair Michelle ROBERTSON, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Francoise DETIENNE, France Co‐Chair Matthias GOEBEL, South Africa Peter BUDNICK, USA Andrew IMADA, USA

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES PROCESS CONTROL Chair Dave MOORE, New Zealand Chair Erik HOLLNAGEL, France [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair David O’NEILL, UK Co‐Chair Scott MALCOLM, Canada Hassanein AL‐SHARIFI, Abu Dhabi PRODUCT DESIGN PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY Chair Pierre‐Henri DEJEAN, France Chair Richard BACKS, USA pierre­[email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Lina BONAPACE, Italy Co‐Chair Stephen FAIRCLOUGH, UK Gaur RAY, INDIA

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH Chair Ram BISHU, USA Chair Kwan Suk LEE, Korea [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Klaus ZINK, Germany Co‐Chair Tsuyoshi KAWAKAMI, Thailand Eric WANG, Taiwan Marilyn FINGERHUT, USA

SIMULATION AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS SLIPS, TRIPS AND FALLS Chair Thomas ALEXANDER, Germany Chair Wen‐Ruey CHANG, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Nico DELLEMAN, Netherlands Co‐Chair Sylvie LECLERCQ, France Roger HASLAM, UK David WORTLEY, UK

TRANSPORT ERGONOMICS WORK WITH COMPUTING SYSTEMS Chair Anabela SIMOES, Portugal Chair Tomas BERNS, Sweden [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Roberto MONTANARI, Italy Co‐Chair Christopher SCHLICK, Germany Peter HOONAKER, USA

Additional Tracks

BIOMECHANICS COGNITIVE ENGINEERING Chair Penelope SANDERSON, Australia Chair Barbara SILVERSTEIN, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Sebastiano BAGNARA, Italy Co‐Chair Leon STRAKER, Australia

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION CULTURAL ERGONOMICS Chair Matthias RAUTERBERG, Netherlands Chair Kenneth BOFF, USA [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Liam BANNON, Ireland Co‐Chair Apala Lahiri CHAVAN, India Majid MOTAMEDZADE, Iran Alan CHAN, Hong Kong

DISPLAYS AND WARNINGS HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION Chair Catherine BURNS, Canada Chair Sung HAN, Korea [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Kenneth LAUGHERY, USA Co‐Chair Tom PLOCHER, USA Susumu SAITO, Japan Pei‐Luen Patrick RAU, China

MARITIME OFFICE AND FURNITURE ERGONOMICS Chair Ravindra GOONETILLEKE, Hong Kong Chair Brian JONES, UK [email protected] [email protected] Co‐Chair Aura MATHIAS, Philippines Co‐Chair Tom STEWART, UK

SERVICE AND HF PRACTICE SPORTS, TRAINING AND LEISURE Chair Holger LUCZAK, Germany Chair Daniel GOPHER, [email protected]­aachen.de [email protected] Co‐Chair Mark PALMER, USA Co‐Chair Samson ADARAMOLA, Nigeria

To realize the Congress theme “Ergonomics Partnerships,” track sessions are encouraged to be jointly held, with papers on common issues to be presented together in joint sessions. Special Sessions

In addition, there will be specially organized sessions to address various issues:

Meet the ISO Standards Committee, including ISO 159 Meet the Editors Panel Student‐to‐Student Outreach Future of Ergonomics Workshop EQUID – Ergonomics Quality In Design – Workshop Industrially Developing Countries Workshop Ergonomics Checkpoints Workshop WEAR Database Launch 99 Seconds Issue Forum IEA/Liberty Mutual Prize Presentation K.U. Smith Student Paper and Prize Presentation

Important Deadlines

From now to AUGUST 15, 2008: Prepare 500‐word Abstracts. Then, contact TRACK CHAIRS for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

NOVEMBER 15: Authors submit revised abstracts by this date, using the IEA2009 Abstract Template. All abstracts will be submitted to the Congress website and limited to ONE page only.

JANUARY 1, 2009: Acceptance notices are sent to Corresponding Authors of submitted abstracts. Each accepted paper will be assigned a PAPER ID. Please quote this in all correspondences. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the congress to present the paper.

APRIL 1: Authors submit Final Full version of papers following submission instructions posted on the IEA 2009 web site. Preparation of papers should use the IEA2009 Paper Template, and the length between 5‐8 pages, including diagrams and references. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.

JUNE 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.

Enquiries

For further enquiries, contact below:

Congress organization & Exhibition: Sheng WANG, [email protected]; Lihua HE, [email protected] Scientific program: Kan ZHANG, [email protected]; Halimahtun KHALID, halimahtun@damai‐sciences.com Congress website: Xianghong SUN, [email protected] Congress secretariat: [email protected]

www.iea2009.org