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Patrick Fuller Receives Award at ASPIRE 2025

PhD candidate Patrick Fuller received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Member with Honors award the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting. For more information,

ECHO Lab presents at ASPIRE 2025

              At the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting, PhD student Patrick Fuller presented two lectures titled “Survey-Informed Systems Framework for Robotic-Assisted Surgery Cybersecurity” (left) and “Identifying and Assessing Nontechnical Skills in Robotic Surgery: A Task Analysis Approach” (right).               PhD student Matthew Ball …

Cha moderates at ASPIRE 2025

At the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting, Dr. Jackie Cha moderated the discussion panel, “Augmented Cognition Meets AI: Enhancing Human Performance with Real-Time, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Intelligence” and led a lecture as session chair for “Occupational Ergonomics 4: Workplace Wellbeing: Addressing Physical and Non-Physical Challenges”.

Gonzales successfully defends dissertation

On August 18th, 2025, Alec Gonzales successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Decision-making training of minimally invasive surgical skills“.

Paper Published in Surgical Endoscopy

Cha, J. S., Fuller, P., Ball, M., Samreen, S., Sylla, P., Stefanidis, D., & SAGES Robotic Committee. (2025). SAGES tool for assessing robotic surgery systems (STARSS). Surgical Endoscopy, 39(9), 5479-5491.

Paper Published in Applied Ergonomics

Gonzales, A., Jackson, C., & Cha, J. (2025). Extended reality as a modality to train non-technical skills in healthcare: A scoping review. Applied Ergonomics, 125, 104463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104463

Paper Published in Applied Ergonomics

Fuller P,. Kennedy S,. Ball M., Duffie H., Gainey M., Luo Q., Joseph A., Carbonell A., Cha, J. S. (2025). Understanding the challenges of robotic-assisted surgery adoption: Perspectives from stakeholders and the general population on human-interaction, built environment, and training. Applied Ergonomics, 122, 104403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104403

Ball awarded HFES Training TG Best Poster Award

Matthew Ball awarded 2024 HFES Training TG Best Poster Award for “An Information Theoretic Approach to Understanding the Information Gain During Laparoscopic Motor Skill”.

Gonzales awarded HFES Augmented Cognition TG Student Grant Award

Alec Gonzales awarded 2024 HFES Augmented Cognition TG Student Grant Award for “Bridging the Gap between Trainee and Expert Mental Models for Minimally Invasive Surgical Tasks”.

Cha Receives Robert L. Wears Early Career Award from HFES Healthcare TG

The Robert L. Wears early career award aims to highlight the achievements of academics and practitioners in the first six years from graduation.