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Descriptions of all Technical Groups

Under the auspices of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society are 23 technical groups that are concerned with the human factors aspects of specific application areas. These TGs oversee the technical review of proposals in their respective areas, described below.
The AEROSPACE SYSTEMS group is concerned with the application of human factors to the development, design, certification, operation, and maintenance of human-machine systems in aviation and space environments. The group addresses issues for civilian and military systems in the realms of performance and safety.
The technical group on AGING is concerned with human factors appropriate to meeting the emerging needs of older people and special populations in a wide variety of life settings.
The AUGMENTED COGNITION Technical Group is concerned with fostering the development and application of real-time physiological and neurophysiological sensing technologies that can ascertain a human’s cognitive state while interacting with computing-based systems; data classification and integration architectures that enable closed-loop system applications; mitigation (adaptive) strategies that enable efficient and effective system adaptation based on a user’s dynamically changing cognitive state; individually tailored training systems; and roadmaps for future directions concerning augmented cognition science and technology and guidelines of use for the technology and the user information that may be garnered from it.
The COGNITIVE ENGINEERING AND DECISION MAKING TECHNICAL GROUP encourages research on human cognition and decision making and the application of this knowledge to the design of systems and training programs. Emphasis is on considerations of descriptive models, processes, and characteristics of human decision making, alone or in conjunction with other individuals or intelligent systems; factors that affect decision making and cognition in naturalistic task settings;...