Date: March 30 – April 2, 2025

Location: Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This annual educational activity is your opportunity to learn insights on the latest science and best practices, understand innovations in the safety of health care providers and patients, sharpen the focus of HF/E initiatives and improve your regulatory approaches. Grow your professional network by connecting with human factors experts, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, biomedical engineers, health care providers, FDA representatives, patient safety researchers and more! Dedicated networking events will enable you to connect with your peers facing similar challenges, exchange best practices and share ideas you can implement at your institution when you return home. For more information, visit https://www.hfes.org/

TechSAge Presentations:

Potential for Robots to Assist People with Vision Impairments with Orientation and Mobility (Maria Lusardi, Mimi Trinh, Jude Chinyere Okoro, Yao-Lin Tsai, John Pohovey, Anjali Ramesh, Samuel Olatunji, Wendy Rogers, Katherine Driggs-Campbell)
Transfer Technologies that Adjust to User Needs as an Approach to Patient Safety (Jon Sanford)
Tele Tai Chi: Insights From Older Adults With Mobility Disabilities on Using Zoom for a Virtual Exercise Program (Elena Remillard)
Understanding the Needs of Individuals Aging With Multiple Sclerosis to Guide the Design of Assistive Technologies (Pallabi Bhowmick, Kainat Shahid, Wendy Rogers, Ian Rice)