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Technical Committees

AES Technical Committee

Human Factors in Audio Systems

Chair:    Soren H. Nielsen    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    William L Martens    (Send E-mail)

The Committee’s goal is to provide our industry with a forum to identify problems and offer audio solutions for human-machine interface design, and to address human factors issues in audio devices. This includes expanding the creation, usability, ergonomics, perception and safety of audio and its technology. We believe the methods for building interfaces and providing auditory feedback must be formulated to enhance the user’s experience while interacting with audio based systems.

Areas of Concentration

  1. Identify ways to optimize Human/Machine interaction in the design of audio systems and environments.
  2. Organize tutorials and workshops for system designers and users.

Various Links

Some examples of bad ergonomics can be found here: http://www.hfes-europe.org/poorergo.htm and here: http://www.baddesigns.com/.

Upcoming conferences within the Human Factors field

  • European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, September 2008: http://www.ecce2008.eu/
  • World Congress on Ergonomics, August 2009: http://www.iea2009.org/home-welcome.htm


Meeting Report:

These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES: E-mail, Tel: +1 212 661 8528, Address: 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA.

2009-6-12     Minutes from the May 2009 meeting.
Description: TC-HFAS meeting in Munich, 08 May 2009

2008-10-28     Minutes from the October 2008 meeting
Description: Meeting in San Francisco, Oct. 4th, 2008.

2008-6-6     Minutes from the May 2008 meeting
Description: TC-HFAS meeting in Amsterdam, 17 May, 3:00-4:00 pm.

2008-5-15     Minutes from formative meeting for TC-HFA
Description: TC-HFA (Human Factors in Audio) Formative Meeting Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:00pm-6:00pm


Other:

2009-6-12     Proposal for Workshop at the 127th Convention
Description: As discussed on the May 2009 TC-HFAS meeting.

2008-6-6     Proposal for Workshop at the 125th Convention
Description: As discussed on the May 2008 TC-HFAS meeting.

2008-5-15     Proposal for session at the 120th Convention
Description: A preliminary paper session proposal. Author: Densil Cabrera. Original date: 2005-10-04.

2008-5-15     Discussion on mission statement
Description: Comments by Durand Begault. Original date 2005-02-25.

2008-5-15     Chairman's comment to report of the 1st meeting
Description: Follow-up by chairman Tom Schlum on the report of the formative meeting of TC-HFAS. Original date: 2005-01-27.


Committee Members

 Florian Konig  Heather Ellsworth  Brian Karr 
 Andrea Polli  Dr. D B Karron  Atushi Marui 
 Aleksander Valjamae  Carryl L. Baldwin  Ellen Haas 
 Seibert Murphy  Alex Bullitt  James J McTigue 
 Elizabeth Cohen  Wieslaw Woszczyk  Tom Schlum 
 Peter Swarte  Soren Bech  Kim Rishoej 
 Soren H. Nielsen  Durand Begault  Jean-Dominique Polack 
 Scott Burgess  Jonathan Laney  Kimio Hamasaki 
 Russell Mason  William L Martens  Densil Cabrera 
 Jeremy Cooperstock  Angela Jones  Paul Chavez 
 Rene Quesnel  Aaron Day  Jonas Braasch 
 Ben Leslie  Sheila McFarland  Joern Loviscach 

To request membership in this Technical Committee please e-mail the Chair by using the link above.

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