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2025 HFES ASPIRE Award Recipients

Congratulations to our 2024–2025 Award Recipients! We are proud to recognize the outstanding achievements of this year’s honorees, whose work continues to advance innovation, safety, and excellence in human factors and transportation research. 2025 Best Student Paper Award Yuan Cai, Caleb (M. Demir) Armstrong, Farzan Sasangohar, and Mohsen Zare “Investigating Shifts in Driver Attention and Trust Across Manual and Autonomous Driving: Insights from Eye-Tracking Metrics” 2025 Stephanie Binder Award Dengbo He Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 2024 Stephanie Binder Award Justin Mason Assistant Research Scientist, Driving Safety Research Institute
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2025 Annual Business Meeting at ASPIRE

📢 STTG Business Meeting at HFES Annual Conference: ASPIRE Dear STTG Members, We warmly invite you to join us for the upcoming STTG Business Meeting at the HFES Annual Conference, ASPIRE. Your participation is invaluable and will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of this event. 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, October 14th, 6:30 – 7:30 pm 📍 Location: Grand C/D North Agenda TG Chair Updates Program Chair Updates Awards Communications Team Updates + anything else our members want to discuss! We look forward to seeing you all in Chicago !
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2025 Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award

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2025 Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award Sponsored by: Human Factors & Ergonomics Society - Surface Transportation Technical Group Nominations are being accepted until Friday, August 29, 2025   Stephanie Binder was 35 years old when she tragically passed away in 2011.  She was a human factors engineer at NHTSA and played a vital role in the Department’s efforts to combat distracted driving. She was the primary author of NHTSA’s overall driver distraction plan and played a leading role in the USDOT’s Distracted Driving Summits.   _____________________________________________________________________    To honor Stephanie’s memory and her impact on the field, the Surface Transportation Technical Group (STTG) of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES) confers an annual Young Professional Award to a young human factors professional who demonstrates outstanding contributions to transportation human factors. The award will be conferred at the A...
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[Reminder] Signup for the Mentor-Mentee Session

STTG Members, Given that our STTG Business Meeting will be virtual this year, we will have more time in Phoenix for an STTG mentoring session. If you are interested in having a mentor , complete the https://forms.gle/ZJR5RbsD63TYN62v8. If you are interested in being a mentor , complete the https://forms.gle/aVeaovrXVkM35jmK7. Please complete the form by August 24, 2024 , to allow time for pairing and information exchange. Thank you!
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