We thank all participants of the AHFEI 2014 Conference, held in Krakow, Poland, 19-23 June and we are looking forward to seeing you all again in Las Vegas, CA, USA for AHFEI 2016, 26-30 July 2016.

The AHFEI 2014 conference was held under the auspices of 17 international boards comprising of 474 members.

Over 1400 people from 62 countries attended this year’s conference. In 198 sessions, 1380 papers were presented and 168 posters from the 62 countries were displayed.

This year’s keynote speaker was Professor Dante R. Chialvo from the National Research and Technology Council (CONICET), Argentina. His speech, entitled "The Mind Near The Edge: A Novel View of Brain Function" how the brain worked as ”a well functioning machine is often associated with something that repeats exactly each time a given performance. The same intuition is used to describe malfunction as randomness and unpredictability.” The speaker briefly described key neuroimaging experimental results which support his view.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Las Vegas in 2016.

A.M.

Some photos from the Opening Session are available at APHEI Facebook page
Pictures: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Applied-Human-Factors-and-Ergonomics-International-Conference-and-News/125445248940

AHFE 2014 Conference edited books with selected, peer-reviewed accepted papers and registered authors published by AHFE International is now available.

Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics 2014
Proceedings of the 5th AHFE Conference 19-23 July 2014
20 Volume Set: Proceedings of the 5th AHFE Conference
www.ahfe2014.org/books.html

In this amazing book on the history of chairs, Jerzy Charytonowicz provides us with an extraordinary voyage through time with this common object, one that we use every day and sits center stage in the field of ergonomics. If you want to create an expose or lecture on chairs, this book is a must.

While the book is in Polish, a language not accessible to most readers including myself, there is an in-depth English summary included at the end. The book itself includes an immense number of museum pictures and drawings that will enable you to see how “from the very beginning, furniture for sitting has comprised constructions whose dimensions and forms were determined by the shape and size of the human body. That kind of furniture, thus, frequently became ‘prints’ of the human body (according to this principle ergonomic constructions for sitting were shaped), and remained without a user it was designated for, the furniture became a symbol always associated with a man and was referred to as ‘empty chair’ - left by someone or waiting for someone. Chairs sculptured, adorned with intarsia, painted or decorated with various materials always exhibited a level of craftsmanship specific to a certain historical period, types of available materials, tools and a level of manufacture technology as well as social needs, artistic ideas, becoming a source of information about the time they originated in. As one of the most formally varied type of furniture, always being in the direct contact with man, chairs have always intrigued artists and architects becoming an object of various creative experiments. Designing furniture for sitting gave artists an opportunity to integrate their technical and anthropological knowledge, knowledge about the surrounding world and people's needs, and it also provided a chance to apply new materials and professional experience. Therefore, as history shows, the most frequently designed furniture for sitting was of concern to architects treating it as an integral part of designed buildings and manifestation of their artistic ideas.”

I found the reading and viewing of the pictures to be an enjoyable experience, one that can be undoubtedly shared by others.

Ewolucja Form Sprzetow Do Siedzenia (Evolution of Sitting Furniture Forms From Prehistory to the Machine Age) by Jerzy Charytonowicz, Edition WROCLSW, 20017. ISBN 978-83-7493-328-5- In Polish

AHFE 2016 will present state-of-the-art ergonomics products, systems and services for users, professionals, and researchers in the AHFE field. More than 1,500 participants who are in a position to make acquisition decisions about human factors and ergonomics products and services are expected at the conference.

More: http://www.ahfe2016org

NIOSH eNews, Volume 12 Number 3 July 2014
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/enews/enewsV12N3.html

The Health and Safety Report, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), July 2014.
http://www.ccohs.ca/ccohs/liaison/current.html

Human Factor sand Ergonomics Society Bulletin, July 2014, Volume 57, Number 7.
http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESBulletin/july2014Main.html

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