Latest News and Upcoming Events
Tour: Veteran's Administration Hospitals National Center for Patient Safety
Wednesday, 3/4, 6 PM (carpool from IOE leaving at 5:45)
NCPS office, Dominos Farms, Ann Arbor
The VA NCPS, which happens to hold offices in Ann Arbor, takes a broad approach to improving patient safety by applying principles of physical and cognitive ergonomics. HFES student chapter members are welcome to join members of the Michigan Usability Professionals Association (UPA) for a very interesting presentation and tour of the NCPS's "House of Horrors" - medical devices, tools, and procedures that may be considered bad designs (from the standpoint of ergonomics principles) - and to see how improvements on those designs have been made to improve patient safety. Please Email hfes.pres for more information, to make a carpool request, and to RSVP for the event - details to follow.
Ford VIRTTEX Driving Simulator Tour
Friday, 2/13, 1 - 3 PM (leave
from circle drive at 11:45!!!)
Ford Research Lab,
Dearborn, MI (we will carpool)
Members are welcome to an exclusive on-site tour of Ford's driving simulator VIRTTEX. More info about the sim can be found here. Please Email hfes.pres if you are interested in carpooling with us, or with any questions.
Whirlyball! sponsored by Applied Safety and Ergonomics
Monday, 2/9
Whirly Ball of Ann Arbor
Our friends at AS&E sponsored a night out for one of their favorite activities, Whirlyball. This game is essentially a mix between hockey and basketball, played with a jai alai basket while driving a bumpercar that operates under a "different" control system - depending on who you ask, it's either intuitive or completely nonintuitive. It was a great time! AS&E also sponsored pizza for the 10 or so chapter members who came out and the AS&E employees. Thanks to Michael for sharing his pictures of the event (click for higher resolution).
IOE 837/EHS 668: Seminar in Occupational Health and Safety Engineering
Winter semester: Fridays, 1 - 2 PM
Room M1112, SPH II (School of Public Health building II)
This seminar, open to the public, features weekly presentations from faculty and members of industry around the country in topics of occupational health and safety. Click here for the seminar schedule. Email hfes.pres with any questions.
ERGOLYMPICS!
Thursday, 1/29, 11:30 - 2:00
IOE Building Lobby
We hosted a series of challenging and fun short contests highlighting classic tasks in the study of physical and cognitive Ergonomics. Click here for pictures and scores from the event!
HFES Bowling Social
December 1, 9:30 - 11:30 PM
Colonial Lanes
Despite a snowy night, we had a good turnout for this social event, for which HFES sponsored the bowling and food for chapter members.
Thanks to Sam and the others who helped organize this event, it was great fun!
Click here for pictures from Bowling Night 08
Bad Designs on Campus (BDOC) Contest
National Ergonomics Month -
October, 2008
BDOC is a campuswide contest to increase awareness of HF/E issues during National Ergonomics Month (October). Through short problem descriptions and solution proposals, UM students get a chance to have some fun and vent frustrations about poor designs they interact with every day on campus. This year, awards will be given for each of two submission genres: text/graphics submissions and video submissions.
The chapter members have voted on the best submissions - click here to go to the BDOC homepage and view the winners and other submissions.