About this journal

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science (TIES) aims to advance the science and philosophy of human factors and ergonomics (HFE). The Journal promotes a broad array of theoretical issues, methodology, and philosophical dialogues about human interactions within simple and complex systems, and is a highly respected forum for interdisciplinary discussion within this field, cutting across the human-centered design, practice, engineering, technology, and management of human-compatible systems in the broadest sense. This includes data-driven applied and experimental work as well as work derived from the practice of HFE with the caveat that the work has implications to, or addresses in some manner, theoretical issues in ergonomics science.

The Journal seeks to explore the frontiers of ever expanding HFE discipline by focusing on HFE contributions to contemporary society in the context of human interactions with technology, engineering, economics and business, as well as consideration of safety and security, human ecology, sustainability, service systems, urbanization, communication, education, and social and government policies. TIES also promotes a large scale system-of-system perspective of HFE, and discusses its implications for the development of the human-centered global society.

The Journal is proactive in its mission to develop a unique HFE discipline, and seeks to define and promote theories of HFE as distinct and inherently valuable for the global knowledge community, including human factors scientists and safety engineers, ergonomists, industrial designers, industrial engineers, systems engineers, design engineers, cognitive and organizational psychologists, health care professionals, business analysts, and human-computer interaction and user experience specialists and practioners.

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science emphasizes new knowledge, publishing original, high-quality, peer-reviewed papers as well as commissioned reviews and peer-reviewed commentaries. Topics include both qualitative and quantitative methodological frameworks and HFE theories. The Journal presents papers that discuss principles of the investigative process in research, social and historical issues, and science of science perspectives on HFE. Papers that examine the discipline itself, including bibliographical analyses of classic papers, are also published.

Unlike other HFE journals that deal primarily with applications, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science focuses on theoretical aspects of the HFE discipline, such as causality and behaviour in a complex human-technology-environment systems. Above all, the Journal provides a vehicle for the dissemination of research on the underpinning scientific foundation of the discipline of HFE that no other publication covers. It creates the opportunity to consider the newest approaches of associated domains and to implant them in human-centered and human-compatible system design. Authors are encouraged to discuss extensive and coherent theories that stimulate future empirical and modelling research within the HFE discipline.

All submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Co-Editors, and if found suitable for further consideration, will enter peer review performed by independent, anonymous, expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. Manuscripts for consideration are to be submitted using the TIES ScholarOne site.

All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

Co-Editors-in-Chief:

Waldemar Karwowski  

- Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2993, USA

Dylan Schmorrow

- SoarTech, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Associate Editors:

Magdalena Fafrowicz -  Jagiellonian University, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology - Neurobiology, Poland

David Kaber - North Carolina State University, USA

William Krebs - Office of Naval Research, USA

Sae Schatz - Independent Consultant, USA

Redha Taiar - University of Reims, France

Editorial Board:

Karthik Adapa - University of North Carolina, USA
Tareq Ahram - University of Central Florida, USA
Ashraf Alhujailli - University College, Saudi Arabia
Awad Aljuaid - Taif University, Saudi Arabia
Pedro Arezes - University of Minho, Portugal
Rick Arnold - Aeromedical Research, USA
Sebastiano Bagnara - University of Siena, Italy
Ann Bisantz - University at Buffalo, USA
Deborah A. Boehm-Davis - George Mason University, USA
Amanda Bond - Soar Technology, USA
Robert Bridger - Independent Consultant, UK
Paulo Carvalho - Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear, Brazil
Don Chaffin - University of Michigan, USA
Roberto Champney - Design Interactive, Inc., USA
Alan H. S. Chan - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dante Chialvo - The National Research and Technology Council (CONICET), Argentina
Steven R. Clapp - University of Central Florida, USA
Joseph Cohn - U.S. Navy, USA
Kermit Davis - University of Cincinnati, USA
Patrick Dempsey - National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, USA
Pepetto Di Bucchianico - University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Massimo Di Nicolantonio - d'Annunzio University, Italy
Vince Duffy - Purdue University, USA
Jan Dul - Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mica Endsley - US Air Force, Washington DC, USA
Magdalena Fafrowicz - Jagiellonian University, Poland
Farzad V. Farahani - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Paolo Ferrari - Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Steve Fiore - University of Central Florida, USA
J. T. Folsom-Kovarik - SoarTech, USA
Lou Freund - San Jose State University, USA                         
Andrea Gaggioli - Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy
Sean Gallagher - Auburn University, USA
Krystyna Gielo-Perczak - University of Connecticut, USA
Ravindra Goonetilleke - HKUST, China
Jerzy Grobelny - Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
Jeff Grubb - NAVAIR, USA
Stephen J. Guastello - Marquette University, USA
Kelly Hale - Design Interactive, USA
Peter Hancock - University of Central Florida, USA
Renliu Jang - Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
Yong Gu Ji - Yonsei University, Korea
Jussi Kantola - University of Turku, Finland
Steve Landry - Purdue University, USA
John D. Lee - University of Wisconsin, USA
Nancy Lightner - Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc., USA
Peng Liu - Tianjin University, China
Tadeusz Marek - Jagiellonian University, Poland
Evangelos Markopoulos - Queen Mary University of London, UK
William S. Marras - Ohio State University, USA
Gerald Matthews - University of Central Florida, USA
Pamela McCauley - University of Central Florida, USA
Jill McQuade - Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA
David Mendonça - MITRE Corporation, USA
Jason Moss - Army Research Laboratory-HRED STTC, USA
Beata Mrugalska - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Denise Nicholson - DSCI MESH Solutions, USA
Calvin Or - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Fivos Panetsos Petrova - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mahjabeen Rahman  -  University of Central Florida, USA
Sudhakar Rajulu - NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Center, USA
Patrick Rau - Tsinghua University, China
Francisco Rebelo - Lisbon University, Portugal
Christopher R. Reid - The Boeing Company, USA
Lauren Reinerman-Jones - SoarTech, USA
Emilio Rossi - University of Lincoln, UK
Paul Salmon - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Krzysztof Santarek - Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Borja Sañudo - University of Seville, Spain
Gavriel Salvendy - Purdue University, USA and Tsinghua University, China
Nabin Sapkota - Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA
Ben Sawyer - University of Central Florida, USA
Joseph Sharit - University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
Marcelo Soares - Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Neville A. Stanton - University of Southampton, UK
Ephraim Suhir - Portland State University, USA
Anna Szopa - University of Central Florida, USA/Jagiellonian University, Poland
Stefan Trzcielinski - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Andrea Vallicelli - University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Peter Vink - TU-Delft, The Netherlands
Alexander Walker - Aptima, USA
Christopher Wickens - Colorado State University, USA
Petros Xanthopoulos - University of Central Florida, USA
Shuping Xiong - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Wei Xu - Zhejiang University, China
Jack Zaientz - SoarTech, USA
Jia Zhou - Chongqing University, China

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