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Our
next meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 11. For more information,
please see the calendar.
Notes from the October
BACHFES meeting and presentation
Time: 7pm
Location: Office Master
on 21730 Stevens Creek Boulevard, #101, Cupertino, California (map).
Attendees: 14
The meeting started with Abbas
Moallem presenting a brief history of the local chapter and the challenges
it has faced over the past few years. Local chapter membership was once
high (upwards of 120 members), but the chapter has been inactive for the
past 2 years. The chapter revitalization effort was discussed, volunteer
Board members were introduced, and a plea was made for interested members
to consider serving as chapter officers.
Guest speaker Becky Hooey from
Monterey Technologies
made a presentation about the Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness
System (T-NASA) that has been developed at the NASA
Ames Human-Centered Systems Lab. The emphasis of the presentation
was on the human-centered design process that the team followed to research,
develop, and test the T-NASA system.
Speaker bios:
Becky Hooey is a
Senior Research Associate at Monterey Technologies Inc., and serves
as a principal investigator in NASA's Human Centered Systems Lab. She
is a member of the NASA team that designed and evaluated the Taxiway-Navigation
and Situation Awareness System (T-NASA), a set of cockpit displays for
airport surface operations.
John Wilson is completing
a MA degree in experimental psychology from San Jose State University.
He is a research associate at NASA Ames Research Center, Human Factors
Research and Technology Division. Currently, he is conducting research
on display concepts for surface operations, including Head-up Displays.(John
Wilson was originally scheduled to participate, but was unable to attend.)
Board meeting minutes
from the October 16, 2002 BACHFES meeting
Time: 6pm
Location: Coffee Society, 21265 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA
Attendees: Abbas Moallem, Richard Olsen, Pat Tittiranonda, Ann Lasko-Harvill,
Steve Fadden
Meeting overview
The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss the current state of the revitalization effort for the
Bay Area Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The following
issues were discussed at the meeting:
- Final updates to the chapter
bylaws
- BACHFES financial and tax
status
- Increasing membership
- University relations and
academic liaisons
- Formal duties and responsibilities
of Board members
- Future meetings and potential
speakers
Summary of decisions
The following decisions were
made at the meeting:
- Updates to the chapter bylaws
were provided to Abbas Moallem. Final edits will be consolidated and
the updated bylaws will be submitted to HFES for approval.
- BACHFES currently has an
account with Washington Mutual, and is using the nonprofit tax status
of national HFES. As BACHFES grows, the chapter will need to consider
adopting its own Tax ID.
- The Board will wait for
feedback from the early October mailing campaign to determine additional
ways to increase membership. Pat Tittiranonda will investigate making
an announcement and distributing chapter information at a local Ergonomics
conference.
- BACHFES will work to strengthen
relationships with existing and potential colleges and universities
through academic liaisons.
- Board members agreed to
maintain their current responsibilities and formalize their positions
as acting officers until replaced by interested chapter members. Ann
Lasko-Harvill will take responsibility for the chapter newsletter, Thomas
Ayres will assume meeting planning responsibilities, Pat Tittiranonda
will assume the role of acting Treasurer, Steve Fadden will serve as
acting Secretary, and Abbas Moallem will serve as acting President.
Next meeting
The next chapter meeting is
planned for Wednesday, December 11, 2002. For more details, please see
the calendar.
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