International Advisory Committee

	Chair
	Andrew S. Imada
		IEA President 4910 Phelps Court Carmichael, California 95608 USA Tel: +1-916-486-1635 Office Email: asimada@gmail.com
Members:
Barbara Silverstein		IEA Executive
David C. Caple		IEA Past President
Eric Min-yang Wang		IEA Executive
Ernst Koningsveld		Past Congress Chair
Gavriel Salvendy		Congress Advisor
Hal Hendrick		IEA Past President
Halimahtun Khalid		Past Programme Chair - 2009
Ian Noy		IEA Past President
Karen Jacobs		IEA Executive
Kazutaka Kogi		ICOH President
Klaus J. Zink		IEA Executive
Martin Helander		IEA Past President
Min Chung		IEA Treasurer
Pierre Falzon		IEA Past President
Ralph Bruder		IEA Executive
Ruud Pikaar		Past Programme Chair - 2006
Tom Grumbles		IOHA President
Tore Itani		ILO Director
Verna Blewett		Chair of IEA 2015
Waldemar Karwowski		IEA Past President
Yushi Fujita		IEA Executive

Regional Scientific Committee

	Chair
	José Orlando Gomes
		President of ABERGO – Brazilian Ergonomics Association President of ULAERGO – Union of Latin-American Ergonomics Society Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Av. Brigadeiro Trompowsky, s/n Centro de Tecnologia - Bloco F - sala F-101 Cidade Universitária, 68548 Phone: +55 (21) 25983267 Email: joseorlandogomes@terra.com.br

International Scientific Committee

	Chair
	Karen Jacobs
		Boston University Program Director in Occupational Therapy 635 Commonwealth Ave Room 511A Boston, MA 02215 USA Phone: +1 617 353-7516 Email: scientific@iea2012.org
Members:
Abel Pinto		Portugal
Airdrie Long		Australia
Allan Toomingas		Sweden
Anabela Simões		Portugal
Antonio Marano		Italy
Aquiles Hernandez		Spain
Arne Aarås		Norway
Barthelemy Ateme-Nguema		Canada
Catherine Burns		Canada
Christina Ahlgren		Sweden
Christopher Schlick		Germany
Clas-Hakan Nygard		Finland
Conne Bazley		United States
Daniela Colombini		Italy
Dave Moore		New Zealand
David O'Neill		United Kingdom
Dino Bortot		Germany
Edgard Martins		Brazil
Edit Varga		Netherlands
Edoardo Santino		Brazil
Elsbeth Korte		Netherlands
Enrico Occhipinti		Italy
Enrique Alvarez-Casado		Spain
Fadi Fathallah		United States
Flávia Pastura		Brazil
Françoise Détienne		France
Francisco Duarte		Brazil
Francisco Masculo		Brazil
Frida Fischer		Brazil
Gempur Santoso		Indonesia
Gert Faber		United States
Gunnar Horgen		Norway
Gunther Paul		Australia
Halimahtun Khalid		Malaysia
Hans Richter		Sweden
Helenice Coury		Brazil
Henk van der Molen		Netherlands
Itiro Iida		Brazil
Jan Neuhöfer		Germany
Jennifer Long		Australia
Jingzhou (James) Yang		United States
Johan Molenbroek		Netherlands
José Carvalhais		Portugal
José Mateus Junior		Brazil
Jose Carlos Placido		Brazil
Julie Charland		Canada
Julie Dorsey		United States
Kapila Jayaratne		Sri Lanka
Kermit Davis		United States
Klaus Fischer		Germany
Klaus Zink		Germany
Knut Inge Fostervold		Norway
Laerte Sznelwar		Brazil
Laura Martins		Brazil
Laura Seppanen		Finland
Laurent Joblet		France
Lia Guimarães		Brazil
Linda Wauben		Netherlands
Luis Bueno		Brazil
Luis Paschoarelli		Brazil
Luz Mercedes Saenz Zapata		Colombia
Magne Helland		Norway
Marcelo Soares		Brazil
Marcio Marçal		Brazil
Margarete Hanson		United Kingdom
Marijke Melles		Netherlands
Marino Menozzi		Switzerland
Martin Helander		Singapore
Martina Jakob		Germany
Masaharu Kumashiro		Japan
Matthew Reed		United States
Merle Blok		Netherlands
Michel Le-Chapellier		France
Michelle Robertson		United States
Nancy Larson		United States
Natale Battevi		Italy
P. Paul Kuijer		Netherlands
Pascal Béguin		France
Patrick Waterson		United Kingdom
Paulo Antonio Oliveira		Brazil
Paulo Noriega		Portugal
Pedro Arezes		Portugal
Pedro Ferreira		Portugal
Per Jensen		Denmark
Peter Budnick		United States
Peter Hoonakker		Netherlands
Peter Lundqvist		Sweden
Pierre-Henri Dejean		France
Raimundo Diniz		Brazil
Regina Maciel		Brazil
Renate Bruin		Netherlands
Riccardo Tartaglia		Italy
Richard Goossens		Netherlands
Rima R. Habib		Lebanon
Roberto Abrahão		Brazil
Robin Gillespie		United States
Roger Hall		Australia
Rosimeire Padula		Brazil
Rush Green		United States
Sandra Alemany		Spain
Sara Albolino		Italy
Sheue-Ling Hwang		Taiwan
Sonja Pavlovic-Veselinovic		Serbia
Stephen Thorpe		United Kingdom
Sudhakar Rajulu		United States
Sue Hignett		United Kingdom
Sven Seibert		Germany
Sylvie Nadeau		Canada
Tal Oron-Gilad		Israel
Teemu Reiman		Finland
Thomas Alexander		Germany
Tommaso Bellandi		Italy
Uiara Montedo		Brazil
Vera Helena Bins Ely		Brazil
Vilma Villarouco		Brazil
Walter Franklin Correia		Brazil
Wen-Ko Chiou		Taiwan
Wen-Ruey Chang		United States
Xuguang Wang		France

International Technical Committee

	Chair
	Lia Buarque M. Guimarães
		Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Departament of Production Engineering and Transport Av. Osvaldo Aranha 99 - 5 andar Centro 90.035-010 - Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil Phone: +55 (51) 33083948 Email: program@iea2012.org

Topics Chair's

ACTIVITY THEORIES FOR WORK ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Chair: Pascal Beguin, France

AEROSPACE HUMAN FACTORS
Chair: Guy Boy, France

AFFECTIVE ERGONOMICS
Chair: Martin Helander, Singapore
Co-Chair: Halimahtun Khalid, Malaysia

AGING
Chair: Clas-Hakan Nygard, Finland

AGRICULTURE
Chair: Fadi Fathallah, USA

ANTHROPOMETRY
Chair: Johan Molenbroek, Netherlands

AUDITORY ERGONOMICS
Chair: Ellen Haas, USA

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
Chair: Henk Van Der Molen, Netherlands

ERGONOMICS FOR CHILDREN AND EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS
Chair: Karen Jacobs, USA

ERGONOMICS IN DESIGN
Chair: Pierre-Henri Dejean, France
Co-chair: Lina Bonapace, Italy

ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING
Chair: Sheue-Ling Hwang, Taiwan

GENDER AND WORK
Chair: Karen Messing, Canada
Co-chair: Rima Habib, Lebanon

HEALTHCARE ERGONOMICS
Chair: Richard Goossens, Netherlands

HUMAN FACTORS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Klaus J. Zink, Germany
Co-chair: Colin Drury, USA

HUMAN SIMULATION AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
Chair: Thomas Alexander, Germany
Co-chair: Gunther Paul, Australia

MINING
Chair: Schu Schutte, South Africa
Co-chair: Robin Burgess-Limerick, Australia

MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER
Chair: Enrico Occhipinti, Italy

ONLINE COMMUNITIES
Chair: Andrew Thatcher, South Africa

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
Chair: Michelle Robertson, USA

PROCESS CONTROL
Chair: Erik Hollnagel, France
Co-chair: Yushi Fujita, Japan

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY IN ERGONOMICS
Chair: Stephen Fairclough, England

SAFETY AND HEALTH
Chair: Suk Lee Kwan, Korea

SLIPS, TRIPS AND FALLS
Chair: Wen Chang, USA

TRANSPORT ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS
Chair: Anabela Simoes, Portugal
Co-Chair: Roberto Montanari, Italy

VISUAL ERGONOMICS
Chair: Magne Helland, Norway
Co-Chair: Hans O. Richter, Sweden

WORK WITH COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Chair: Tomas Berns, Sweden
Co-Chair: Christopher Sclick, Germany