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Bay Area Chapter of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society
October 2002 Newsletter
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Inside this issue...
1. October
Meeting Announcement
2. Directions
3. Volunteer Opportunities
4. Jobs
5. About BACHFES
6. BACHFES Board
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1. October BACHFES Meeting Announcement
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Location:
Office Master
21730 Stevens Creek Blvd. #101
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-253-0985
7:00 to 7:30: Socializing,
Joining BACHFES
7:30 to 9:00: Special Presentation:
Head-Up Displays for Airport
Surface Operations: Evaluating Workload and Situation Awareness
Presented by John
Wilson, San Jose State University and Becky Hooey, Monterey Technologies,
Inc.
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.
BACHFES meeting attendance
is free and open to the public. BACHFES programs are not audio- or videotaped,
and taping by attendees is not permitted.
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2. Directions to Meeting
Office Master
21730 Stevens Creek Blvd. #101
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-253-0985
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From San Francisco:
Take US-101 SOUTH
Take the CA-85 SOUTH exit towards CUPERTINO/SANTA CRUZ
Merge on CA-85 SOUTH
Take the STEVENS CREEK BLVD exit towards STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
Turn Right on STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
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From San Jose:
Take The I-280 NORTH
Take the CA-85 SOUTH exit towards GILROY
Merge on CA-85 SOUTH
Take the STEVENS CREEK BLVD exit towards STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
Turn Right on STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
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From Oakland:
Take the I-880 SOUTH ramp towards SAN JOSE
Merge on I-880 SOUTH
Take the DECOTO RD/CA-84 WEST exit towards DUMBARTON BR
Merge on CA-84 WEST
Turn Left on WILLOW RD
Bear Right to take the US-101 SOUTH ramp towards SAN JOSE
Merge on US-101 SOUTH
Take the CA-85 SOUTH exit towards CUPERTINO/SANTA CRUZ
Merge on CA-85 SOUTH
Take the STEVENS CREEK BLVD exit towards STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
Turn Right on STEVENS CREEK BLVD.
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3.
Volunteer Opportunities
BACHFES needs volunteers! For
a few hours per month, you can provide a valuable service to your colleagues
in the HFES community. View the Officer Descriptions
for more information about the available positions. If you're interested
or would like to find out more, please send your contact information,
including telephone number, to moallema@aol.com.
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4. Jobs
Align Technology, Inc. is located
in Santa Clara, CA and is currently
looking for an ergonomist.
Title: Facilities, Environmental,
H&S Manager
Company:Align Technology, Inc.
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Website: www.invisalign.com
Resumes to: jobs@aligntech.com
Contact: Eduardo Rivas
PeopleSoft, Inc. is located
in Pleasanton, CA and is currently looking for usability engineers and
interaction designers.
Title: Usability Engineer,
Interaction Designer
Company: PeopleSoft
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Website: www.peoplesoft.com
Resumes to: tracy_nguyen@peoplesoft.com
Additional Information:
PeopleSoft is looking
for talented Interaction Designers and Usability Engineers to join PeopleSoft's
User Experience team. You will drive a User-Centered Design process and
define the user experience of complex Web-based business applications.
User experience (UE) professionals at PeopleSoft are empowered and appreciated!
We are responsible for the design and evaluation of PeopleSoft's 160+
eBusiness products. You could become part of our experienced multi-disciplinary
UE team, working with development,
strategy, and sales to create user-centered Web-based business applications
that are a pleasure to use.
Qualifications:
* Proven strong technical design skills.
* Experienced leader of the development of relational database applications
with a solid foundation in both traditional waterfall development and
rapid development methodology (including prototyping experience).
* Expertise across the majority of the PeopleSoft 8 development toolset
(and at least some knowledge and understanding of the areas that you're
not an expert in). The point is you'll have to be well aware of the capabilities
of the full PeopleSoft bag of development tools tricks.
* Expertise in user interface development for web-based applications,
including self-service.
* Experience with user-defined rules processing engines.
* Solid applications integration experience.
* Project planning skills.
* Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
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5. About BACHFES
BACHFES is comprised of HFES members in the Bay Area. The Chapter provides
a forum for members to exchange information and ideas on human factors
and ergonomics issues. The BACHFES chapter holds regular meetings, publishes
newsletters, sponsors events and special activities, and provides annual
reports and business meetings for group members, as well as to the HFES
society at-large.
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6. BACHFES Board
Board Meetings take place from
6:00 to 7:00 PM on the same day as the local chapter meeting. Please attend
if you are interested in becoming an officer or volunteer.
Current Members:
Abbas Moallem, Ph.D. (Chair)
amoallem@email.sjsu.edu
Thomas J. Ayres, Ph.D.
tjayres@sbcglobal.net
Steve Fadden, Ph.D.
sfadden@yahoo.com
Ann Lasko-Harvill
ann@laskoharvill.com
Richard A. Olsen, Ph.D., C.H.F.P.
Oricolsen@cs.com
Pat Tittiranonda, Ph.D.
pat_tittiranonda@peoplesoft.com
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