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Thank you to everyone who came out for #NTEC22! We had amazing discussions about the #FutureOfWork and our efforts on developing an inclusive national talent ecosystem for emerging technologies!

And thank you to all of our panelists and speakers for bringing their insight and expertise to the first National Talent Ecosystem Council Symposium. It was a pleasure to host here in Aggieland and we look forward to what the future has in store for the National Science Foundation (NSF) #ConvergenceAccelerator project!

Thank you Linda K Molnar, Robby Robson, Aaron Bangor, Ph.D., CHFP, CPACC, Ben Amaba, PhD, PE, CPIM, LEED AP, Peter Khooshabeh, Ph.D., Cindy Lawley, Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Al Davis and our amazing keynote speakers, Dr. Jeff Allen and TWC Commissioner Julian Alvarez! A big shout out to Lindsey Brenner, Jason Moats, and Scott Miller for your amazing leadership in organizing this symposium and bringing us together!

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers awarded Dr. Ranjan Mehta for Technical Innovation at IISE Annual 2022! Congratulations on this honor! 

What a wonderful Houston HFES Symposium 2022! Thank you to everyone who made this event such a great, engaging experience. We were happy to share our research with everyone and to see the work of human factors and ergonomics researchers from all over Texas.

John Kang presented both a poster and oral presentation on  “Correlations between fatigue measures from various fatigue assessment methods and time on Offshore Platforms” for team EMPOWER.

Reed Smoot with team NHANCE presented “Non-invasive brain stimulation as a #fatigue countermeasure: On timing and focality.”

Harlyn Nguyen presented a poster on “Central Mechanisms during Fatiguing Exercises under the influence of Cognitive Stress” with team STEM.

Isabella Pedron, Connor Barnes, and Ashley Bailly presented a poster on “Analysis of Cognitive Personalized Emergency Medical Training Using Augmented Reality” with the LEARNER team.

The LEARNER team was also awarded the Best Poster Award at the event by the Houston HFES Committee!

The NeuroErgonomics Lab is so proud!

We are looking forward to the next NIRx Open Webinar on “The Neuroergonomics of Exercise and Neuromuscular Fatigue in Older Adults”- with Oshin Tyagi who will discuss what effective connectivity and fNIRS can tell us on this topic!

See more details regarding the event here!

We enjoyed the warm weather and great company yesterday at the ISEN picnic!

Congratulations to Rohith on his new publication in AAAI AI Magazine on Human-centered intelligent training for emergency responders!  In the article, you can read how human augmentation technologies, like exoskeletons, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality, have the potential to enhance physical and cognitive work capacities and drastically change the future of ER work.

Check out the article here!

Oshin presented at the Applied Ergonomics Conference in Orlando, Florida on the topic “Mind over Body: Factors influencing exoskeleton, adaptation, acceptance, and use. In this photo, Oshin covers the study instrumentation and experiment protocol to the audience.

Last week, Aakash presented at the 4th Annual Workshop on Novel and Emerging Test Methods & Metrics for Effective HRI! Here, he discussed the different approaches of studying trust in human-robot collaboration and proposes the use of multimodal biobehavioral approaches to quantify that trust.

You can watch his video here!

Big news…times 2!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hopko and Dr. Rohith Karthikeyan on a successful doctoral defense. The NeuroErgo Lab couldn’t be more proud of you, and all of your accomplishments! We look forward to what your future holds.