For the HFES ASPIRE Conference, we're interested in organizing a discussion panel to be held Thursday 16 Oct tentatively titled "Lessons Learned about Working in AI Engineering Teams as a Human Factors Professional."
We're seeking 4 to 5 volunteers to be included in this panel proposal. The panel will involve presenting, discussing, and answering questions about what you learned and what was useful to understand about AI engineering (AI development, evaluation, integration, etc.) in your past AI project experience/s.
The goal is to share wisdom gained with panel attendees so they can be more prepared to participate impactfully in AI engineering activities. For example, did you learn about metrics or methods for AI validation and test, AI hyper parameters and their impacts, data requirements, strengths and weaknesses of AI techniques, what types of data or problems different AI techniques are best suited for, persistent technical challenges, or human-AI interaction issues that human factors professionals should be prepared to look out for and address.
There are a lot of possibilities, and you might find you have a wide range of lessons learned. If that's the case for you, please choose the lessons you consider most useful for preparing your human factors colleagues to work effectively with AI engineers and contribute meaningfully to AI engineering endeavors. You might consider a conversation with your AI/Data Science colleagues to obtain their insights as well (or share this invitation with them if you think they are in tune with the panel theme).
To volunteer to participate, please send an email to kneville@mitre.org and guliztokadli.gt@gmail.com with (1) your bio and (2) a short description of your relevant experience and/or lessons learned you'd like to share in this panel. Both will be included in the panel proposal due on 13 Feb. (You're welcome to send a rough cut and finalize your description by Monday 10 Feb COB.) Feel free to reach out if you have questions and we'll do our best to respond (most likely in the evening).
This will be first come-first served until the panelist slots fill or COB Wednesday Feb 5. I'll post a notice on the HFES Connections Discussion Site as soon as we've filled the panelist slots.
Participation is open to all.
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Güliz Tokadli, HART TG Program Chair
Kelly Neville, HART TG Chair
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