20th Annual HFES Student Research Conference
The 20th Annual CSULB HFES Student Conference was held on Saturday, March 15th, 2025 at the Psychology Building. Our conference featured keynote speakers, alumni panels, student research and it served as an amazing event for people passionate about human factors in various sectors of academia, industry, etc. We extend our thanks to the students, faculty, alumni, and anyone interested in human factors that made this conference possible!

Conference Schedule
Directions and Parking
Address: 6049 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA 90840
The address will take you to the Amazon Locker on campus which is also located on Lot E10.

Lots E10 and E11 are located near the Psychology building but parking may be limited. We also recommend General lots G1, G3, G4, and G5. Please remember that paid parking is required at all times when parking on CSULB campus.
CSULB uses the License Plate Recognition (LPR), a paperless permitting system. Your license plate number is needed when you purchase parking, which costs $15 for the whole day. Please have your license plate information with you prior to leaving your vehicle. You are only able to park in the lot you have paid for.
Student Poster Presentations
Session 1
Affordance or Spatial Coding? The Object-Based Simon Effect
Blurred, Bright, or Just Right? How Screens Impact Drivers With Visual Impairments
Cognitive Implications for Arrows in Automotive Indicators and Road Signs
Cost-Benefit Analyses Relevance to Information Search
Trust, Fault, Blame, and Driver Performance in Automated Vehicle Collisions
Distracted Driving: Effects of Cell Phone Use on Blind Spot Monitoring
Orienting in a Spatial Environment using Cardinal Direction Judgements
Did you see that? How Viewpoint Shifts Impact Change Detection
Target Detection in Conjunction Search Tasks
The Human Factor in AI: Risks of Over-Reliance
Session 2
Does Stress Increase Vivid Memory Recall Capacity of VR-Based Tasks?
Examining the Relationship Between Basketball Expertise and Judgment Accuracy
Literature Review: Enhanced Healthcare Performances from a Human Factors Approach
Map Orientation Impact on Spatial Acquisition during a Memory Task
Modeling Trust in Heterogenous R3 Human-Machine Teams
Spatial Responses to Dorsal and Volar Haptic Alerts in Varied Wrist Orientations
Stay in Your Lane: Testing Tactile Navigational Cues for Urban Air Mobility Operations
Investigating the Effectiveness of Explanations on Imperfect AI-Supported Decisions
Thematic Analysis of Tactile Navigation Cues in Simulated UAM Operations
Utility mapping and Its Impact on Decision Making in Geospatial Reasoning Tasks
Thank You to Our Sponsors
- CSULB Associated Students Inc, ASI
- Center for Human Factors in Advanced Aeronautics Technologies (CHAAT)
- Center for Usability in Design and Accessibility (CUDA)
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) National Chapter
- San Jose State University Research Foundation
- LBS Financial
- Dynamic Research, Inc.
- Aperture LLC
