Thomas J. Smith, PhD, adjunct professor for the School of Kinesiology, co-authored two papers that have been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the upcoming 21st Triennial Conference of the International Ergonomics Association. The conference will take place virtually June 13-18.

Paper titles are: 1) “University Student Experiences with Mandated Home Isolation” (Hannah Griebel co-author); and 2) “Reliability of Heuristic Evaluation during Usability Analysis” (co-author Cindy Kheng). Griebel is a Master’s candidate, and Kheng a Master’s recipient, from the University of Minnesota’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Graduate Program.

Smith has also been elected as the next Chair of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Education Technical Group