Jerome H Ely

Human Factors Award

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) is the primary professional organization for the field of human factors in the U.S. (one of two internationally).

Human Factors is the flagship journal for this organization. It covers basic and applied research, quantitative and qualitative approaches to theory, and literature reviews in all areas of the human factors / ergonomics discipline.

The Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Award was established by the HFES in 1966. This award formally recognizes the single most outstanding paper published in each volume of Human Factors.

Bennett, Toms, & Woods (1993 [click here to download]) received this award for Volume 35.

The press release from HFES describes the committee’s rationale for the article’s selection:

The paper, "Emergent Features and Graphical Elements: Designing More Effective Configural Displays” (Volume 35, Number 1, March 1993), was selected by a committee of HFES Fellows on the basis of subject matter relevance, methodological sophistication, clarity of presentation, and overall contribution to the field of human factors. In selecting this paper, the committee recognized the careful and creative manner in which the authors conducted and evaluated their study.

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Commemorative plaque for Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Award.