From: "Ronald R. Mourant" Subject: ANNOUNCE: Election Ballot - VETT Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:59:51 +0100 Election Ballot - Virtual Environments Technical Group (Only Members and Fellows of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society who have paid VETG dues may vote.) BACKGROUPS OF THE NOMINEES ARE GIVEN BELOW. TECHNICAL GROUP CHAIR (two year term) Duties: Conducting TG activities including the Annual Meeting, publishing the Group's Newsletter (at least twice a year), setting the membership dues rate, maintaining the TG mailing list, and answering inquiries. Candidates: Steve Ellis Larry Hettinger Kay Stanney My choice is (Vote for one of the above): ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM CHAIR (two year term) Duties: Responsible for the development of the TG's technical program through solicitation and review of technical paper submittals and symposia/panel discussion proposals. Joseph L. Gabbard Ronald R. Mourant My choice is (Vote for one of the above): ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM CHAIR DESIGNATE Duties: Assist the Annual Meeting Program Chair and become Annual Meeting Program Chair for the year 2000 Joint Annual Meeting with the International Ergonomics Association. Joseph L. Gabbard W. Todd Nelson My choice is (Vote for one of the above): 1. Ballots must be received by 5 P.M. October 17, 1997 2. Send all ballots to Ronald R. Mourant at: mourant@coe.neu.edu Backgrounds of the Nominees: Steve Ellis, Ph.D. - Group leader, Spatial Perception and Advanced Display Lab, NASA Ames Research Center. Larry Hettinger, Ph.D. - Senior Human Factors Engineer, Logicon Technical Services, Inc. Director, Virtual Environment Interface Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Kay Stanney, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Departemnt of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Univ. of Central Florida. Annual Meeting Program Chair of the VETG for the past two years. Co-founder of the Virtual Environments Technical Group. Director, Virutal Environments Lab, Univ. of Central Florida. Joseph L. Gabbard - Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science Dept. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Current research focuses on usability in VEs; hence the interest in VTEG. Ronald R. Mourant, Ph.D. - Profesor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., Northeastern University. Co-founder and Chair of the VETG. VETG Newsletter Editor. W. Todd Nelson, Ph.D. - Engineering Research Psychologist, Logicon Technical Services, Inc. Dr. W. Todd Nelson conceives, plans,and executes a program of basic and applied research and development aimed at establishing human sensory interactions relative to human factors design and performance enhancement of virtual environment interface technology. Ron Phone: 617 373-3931 FAX: 617 373-2921 mourant@coe.neu.edu http://www.coe.neu.edu/~mourant/velab.html Prof. Ronald R. Mourant, Virtual Environments Laboratory 330 Snell Engineering Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115