21st Annual HFES Student Research Conference

The 21st Annual CSULB HFES Student Conference is held on Saturday, March 14th, 2026 at the Psychology Building. Our conference features keynote speakers, alumni panels, student research and it serves as an amazing event for people passionate about human factors in various sectors of academia, industry, etc. We extend our thanks to the students, faculty, alumni, and anyone interested in human factors that make this conference possible!

Student presenting during poster session

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Conference Schedule

 

Conference on March 14, 2026 from 9am to 2:30PM. 8am Check-in, 9am Opening Remarks, 9:15am Poster Session, 10:30am Keynote Speakers, 12pm Lunch, 1:15pm Almuni Panel, 2:15pm Closing Remarks. 2:30pm Networking.

 

Directions and Parking

Address: 6049 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA 90840

The address will take you to the Amazon Locker on campus which is also located on Lot E10.

2024 HFES conference parking

Lots E10 and E11 are located near the Psychology building but parking may be limited. We also recommend General lots G1, G3, G4, and G5. Please remember that paid parking is required at all times when parking on CSULB campus.

CSULB uses the License Plate Recognition (LPR), a paperless permitting system. Your license plate number is needed when you purchase parking, which costs $15 for the whole day. Please have your license plate information with you prior to leaving your vehicle. You are only able to park in the lot you have paid for.

 

Student Poster Presentations

2026 Posters to be announced in March.

 

2025 Posters listed below:

Affordance or Spatial Coding? The Object-Based Simon Effect

Blurred, Bright, or Just Right? How Screens Impact Drivers With Visual Impairments

Cognitive Implications for Arrows in Automotive Indicators and Road Signs

Cost-Benefit Analyses Relevance to Information Search 

Trust, Fault, Blame, and Driver Performance in Automated Vehicle Collisions

Distracted Driving: Effects of Cell Phone Use on Blind Spot Monitoring

Game Over?: The Impact of Task Duration and Difficulty Levels on Fatigue in a Virtual Reality (VR) Video Game

Orienting in a Spatial Environment using Cardinal Direction Judgements

Did you see that? How Viewpoint Shifts Impact Change Detection 

Target Detection in Conjunction Search Tasks

The Human Factor in AI: Risks of Over-Reliance

Does Stress Increase Vivid Memory Recall Capacity of VR-Based Tasks?

Examining the Relationship Between Basketball Expertise and Judgment Accuracy

Literature Review: Enhanced Healthcare Performances from a Human Factors Approach

Map Orientation Impact on Spatial Acquisition during a Memory Task

Maximizing the Utilization of Mobile Food Delivery Apps through Cultivating Satisfaction, Trust and Loyalty

Modeling Trust in Heterogenous R3 Human-Machine Teams

Spatial Responses to Dorsal and Volar Haptic Alerts in Varied Wrist Orientations 

Stay in Your Lane: Testing Tactile Navigational Cues for Urban Air Mobility Operations

Investigating the Effectiveness of Explanations on Imperfect AI-Supported Decisions

Thematic Analysis of Tactile Navigation Cues in Simulated UAM Operations 

Utility mapping and Its Impact on Decision Making in Geospatial Reasoning Tasks

Vibrotactile Guidance in the Sky: Evaluating UAM Operator Workload, Situational Awareness, and Usability

 

Thank You to Our Previous Sponsors

We’d like to thank our sponsors for supporting CSULB’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Chapter. Our sponsors have made it possible to support our needs to organize a large student conference to showcase our HFES community. Thank you to our sponsors:
  • CSULB Associated Students Inc, ASI
  • Center for Human Factors in Advanced Aeronautics Technologies (CHAAT)
  • Center for Usability in Design and Accessibility (CUDA)
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) National Chapter
  • San Jose State University Research Foundation
  • LBS Financial
  • Dynamic Research, Inc.
  • Aperture LLC
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