Reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the 2024 HFESA annual conference closes on the 19th May - call for papers below!

ergonomics.org.au/conf1/

High quality abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for publication in the HFEMSI journal #humanfactors

Coming soon...

An interesting piece on emergence in LLMs

'Unpredictable and sudden jumps in capabilities, especially dangerous capabilities, create a risk that models will pose threats without time for adequate mitigation measures'

cset.georgetown.edu/article/emerge…

#AI #artificialintelligence

Here is the link to a new open access co-authored article with Simon Smith and the team at UQ News on the use of Heart Rate Variability as indicator of fatigue sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #HRV #roadsafety #fatigue Centre for HF & STS UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast

Fascinating keynote from ⁦NatashaMerat⁩ on her program of work exploring interactions between AVs and other road users. I love the studies using distributed simulation to study interactions between different road users! #ciehf #ehf2024 #roadsafety #driverless

Dr Neil Spenceley with a powerful keynote in the perils of error counting, root cause analysis, and focusing on what went wrong in healthcare. I love the closing message that ‘Workers are the root remedy’ #ciehf #ehf2024 #healthcare #humanfactors #patientsafety

So many people are confused about the relation between human cognitive errors and LLM hallucinations that I wrote this short explainer:

Humans say things that aren't true for many different reasons
• Sometimes they lie
• Sometimes they misremember things
• Sometimes they fail…

Kicking off EHF24 this morning with a masterclass on prospective risk assessment methods (Net-HARMS, STAMP-STPA, EAST-BL). Looking forward to it! #ciehf #ehf2024 #humanfactors #ergonomics Centre for HF & STS UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast

An interesting piece on why American roads are so dangerous. Blaming drivers is wide of the mark though. The problems discussed are all societal. We cannot expect roads to be safe when society is falling apart around them #roadsafety #systemsthinking ft.com/content/9c936d…

Really interesting, funded School of Healthcare PhD based in the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber PSRC theme on safer systems, cultures & practices that Carl Macrae & I lead.

Exploring role of NEDs in patient safety management.

Great supervisory team: Gemma Louch Laura Sheard Lauren Ramsey Dr Charlotte Overton RN 👇

Looking forward to this. Sabine Koszegi with the HFES Europe annual meeting keynote #humanfactors #robotics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Richard Bye on Human Factors interventions for rail system resilience in the face of extreme UK weather. An interesting mix of HFE methods and approaches for a highly complex issue #rail #humanfactors #systemsthinking #rail safety #resilience #HFESEuro

About to go with day 1 of the HFES Europe Chapter 2024 Annual Meeting! Looking forward to some great presentations #humanfactors #ergonomics #ai #artificialintelligence #sustainability #transport #robotics #hfeseuro

See our new open access Ergonomics article in which we tested the inter- and intra-rater reliability of AcciMap, STAMP-CAST, and AcciNet when used by practitioners from a range of safety critical domains tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #humanfactors #ergonomics UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast Centre for HF & STS

Check out our new open access article on the use of the STAMP control structure to examine risk management for advanced emerging technologies in road transport
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #AI #roadsafety #humanfactors Centre for HF & STS UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast #ArtificialIntelligence

Fantastic public lecture from Prof Barry Drust on sports science research and practice. Some key take aways included the need to ask why when gathering ever more data and the need to consider the complexity of sports organisations and systems Centre for HF & STS UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast #sport #football

The problem with reductionism. Graphic by Jan Konietzko

One year ago today we released an open letter calling for a six-month pause on giant AI experiments.

A lot has happened since then - far more than we could have predicted.

🧵 Some highlights from the past year of unprecedented momentum and progress addressing risks from AI 👇

Anybody looking for concrete examples of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can pose a risk to humanity, check out the the Future of Life Institute's catastrophic AI risk scenarios resource futureoflife.org/resource/catas… #AI #AI Safety #ArtificialIntelligence Future of Life Institute

Unintentional doping via supplement use - definitely a complex issue with multiple contributory factors involving many stakeholders beyond the athlete #GEC2024 #doping #antidoping #supplements