Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has been chosen by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) to publish the Society's flagship publication Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, starting January 2009. The first SAGE issue will be released in February 2009.
Human Factors is a peer-reviewed journal presenting original papers of scientific merit that contribute to the understanding and advancement of the systematic consideration of people in relation to machines, systems, and environments. The journal covers articles encompassing basic and applied research, quantitative and qualitative approaches to theory, evaluative reviews of the literature, and state-of-the-art reviews on all aspects of the human-system interface. It also features special sections highlighting important areas. In recent years, topics have included fatigue, elderly drivers, training, measurement, visual displays, assisting people with functional impairments, human information processing, expert systems, and vigilance.
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) is a multidisciplinary professional association of professionals, including psychologists and other behavioural scientists, engineers, and designers, all of whom have a common interest in designing systems and equipment to be safe, usable, useful, and comfortable for the people who operate and maintain them.
