The Alamo Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) is headquartered in San Antonio and serves all of South Texas.

National membership in HFES is not required for Alamo Chapter membership. We welcome all interested professionals at our meetings. Human factors research, development and applications interact with many domains of design and engineering. For example...

• Meeting the emerging needs of aging and special populations in a wide variety of life settings
• Development, design, certification, operation, and maintenance in aviation and space environments.
• Technologies that can ascertain a human's cognitive state while interacting with computing-based systems
• Human-to-human communication, especially communication mediated by technology
• User-centered design of computer hardware, software, applications, documentation, and the computer work environment
• Developing consumer products that are useful, usable, safe, and desirable
• Human cognition and decision making
• Education and training of human factors and ergonomics specialists
• Relationships between human behavior and the designed environment
• Forensic "standards of care" and accountability established within the legislative, regulatory, and judicial systems
• Perception and its relation to human performance
• The wide range of personality and individual differences that are believed to mediate performance
• Improving safety, productivity, and quality of work in industry
• Internet technologies and related behavioral phenomena. Especially user interface design of Web content and applications, behavioral and sociological phenomena associated with distributed network communication, human reliability in administration and maintenance of data networks, and accessibility of Web-based products
• Maximizing the contributions of human factors and ergonomics to medical systems effectiveness and the quality of life of people who are functionally impaired
• Organizational design and management issues and work system design and human-organization interface technology
• Developing and applying predictive, reliable, and executable quantitative models of human performance
• Safety in all settings and attendant populations, including aviation, transportation, industry, military, office, public building, recreation, and home environments
• Defining human factors/ergonomics activities and integrating them into the system development process in order to enable systems that meet user requirements
• Test and evaluation of systems by measuring performance, workload, situational awareness, safety, and acceptance of personnel engaged in operating and maintaining systems
• Training and training research
• Transportation systems: passenger, commercial, and military vehicles, on- and off-road; mass transit; maritime transportation; rail transit, including Vessel Traffic Services (VTS); pedestrian and bicycle traffic; and highway and infrastructure systems, including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Maximizing human performance efficiency in virtual environments, ensuring health and safety, and circumventing potential social problems through proactive assessment