February Meeting Information

Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Additional details will be provided on the calendar as they are finalized.

Notes from the February BACHFES meeting and presentation

Time: 7pm
Location: Office Master, Cupertino, California.
Attendees: 8

Guest speaker Dr. Erich Phillips gave a presentation on "Faithful presentation of luminance contrast", where he discussed the challenges associated with presenting visual scenes, without reducing luminance contrast. For more information on this topic, consult the following conference paper: Phillips, E.S., Ward, G., and Ayres, T. "Faithful presentation of luminance contrast: Evaluation of photographic and computational display methods," Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE's 15th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science & Technology (January 2003).

Speaker bio:

Dr. Erich Phillips is a biophysicist specializing in the physiology of human vision. He has a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University. His research includes photoreceptor transduction, vision and visibility in vehicular accidents, roadway lighting, and computer simulation of nighttime environments. Dr. Phillips has expertise in contrast perception, color discrimination, visual conspicuity, vision and lighting issues related to vehicular accidents, vision and lighting issues related to falls, computer simulation and visualization of nighttime scenes, photography and videography, computer animation, and stereo photography and videography.

Dr. Phillips is a Principal Scientist at Exponent in Menlo Park.

Board meeting minutes from the February 12, 2003 BACHFES meeting

Time: 6pm
Location: Office Master, 21730 Stevens Creek Blvd. #101, Cupertino, CA.
Attendees: Abbas Moallem, Thomas Ayres, Steve Fadden, Pat Tittiranonda, Al Williams

Meeting overview

The purpose of the meeting was to review the current state of the chapter, plan for the next meeting, and discuss potential changes to the presentation schedule and method. The following issues were discussed at the meeting:

• Current chapter membership has grown to about 30 members.
• The Bay area region from Santa Cruz to Berkeley contains about 100 national HFES members. Most students are from the San Jose State University program.
• Additional people who may be interested in BACHFES presentation topics include members of the Systems Safety Society, and the Ergonomics Roundtable.
• Taxes for BACHFES will be dealt with through the national organization.
• The next meeting needs to be planned outside of the week of April 5-10 due to the ACM SIGCHI conference.
• Given our low meeting attendance (under 10 participants present), should BACHFES change its presentation schedule, method, or venue?
• Future meetings and potential speakers.

Summary of decisions

No chapter-level decisions were made at the meeting, although participants agreed that the April meeting should be re-scheduled to avoid conflict with the ACM SIGCHI conference. The next BACHFES meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, April 16.

Next meeting

The next chapter meeting is planned for Wednesday, April 16, 2003. For more details, please see the calendar.