REPORT OF HWWE 2015 MUMBAI, INDIA
The 13th International Ergonomics Conference – Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2015
(HWWE 2015) was jointly hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the National
Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai from 7-9 December 2015. Under the theme of “Caring for
people” the conference was co-hosted by the Nutrition Society of India (Mumbai Chapter) and the
Punjab Engineering College (PEC) University of Technology, Chandigarh. Prof. Rauf Iqbal was
Conference Co-chair and Prof. Vivek Khanzode was Secretary-Scientific committee. The conference
witnessed deliberation of approx. 500 scientific papers (including poster presentation) in different
categories as: theme speaker, special invited speaker, keynote speaker, lead speaker and registered
delegates for oral presentation in parallel tracks. The conference was inaugurated by Prof. Devang
Khakhar (Director IIT Bombay), Prof (Ms.) Karuna Jain (Director NITIE), Dr. Yushi Fujita (President
IEA), Prof. Manoj K Arora (Director PEC, Chandigarh), Prof. G.G. Ray (President, ISE), Dr. P.K. Nag
(Chair HWWE 2015), Dr. (Ms.) K. Sen Ray (President Nutrition Society of India, Mumbai Chapter)
and Prof. B.K. Chakravarthy (Head, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay).
Lighting of lamp
Inaugural speech by Dr. Yushi Fujita, President IEA
Welcome address by Prof. Rauf Iqbal
Inaugural speech by Prof. Karuna Jain, Director NITIE
Vote of Thanks by Prof Vivek Khanzode
Directors of Host Institutes
Delegates at the conference
The conference was supported by International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The following office
bearers, council members of IEA and special invited speakers participated in HWWE 2015: Prof. Yushi
Fujita (President IEA; Keio Graduate School of Management,Japan), Prof. Jose Orlando Gomes (Vice
President and Treasurer IEA; Federal University of Rio de JaneiroBrazil), Prof. Erin Min-yang Wang
(Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan), Prof. Rosemary Seva (Industrial EngineeringGokongwei College of Engineering,De La Salle
University, Philippines), Prof. Arun Garg (Director, Center for Ergonomics,University of WisconsinMilwaukee), Prof. Seyed Ali Hosseini (Department of Ergonomics, University of Social Welfare and
Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran), Prof. Andrew Todd (Department of Human Kinetics and
Ergonomics, Rhodes University, South Africa), Dr. Kazutaka Kogi (Research Adviser, Institute for
Science of Labour, Kawasaki, Japan), Dr. David C Caple (Director, David Caple & Associates Pty Ltd,
Australia), Dr Denis A. Coelho (Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human Factors and
Ergonomics (published by Inderscience Publishers, UK), Dr. Anil Kakodkar (BARC), Prof. Amaresh
Chakrabarti (IISC Bangalore), Dr. PK Nag (Former Director NIOH) and Dr. AK Ganguli (BHEL). Prof.
Karuna Jain, Director NITIE and Prof A.K. Pundir (Dean Students Affairs and Placements) had
meetings with IEA dignitaries regarding projects of mutual interests and similar kind of programme in
future.
Accommodation to all the international dignitaries was provided in Anand Vihar guest house at NITIE
and all invited speakers and senior delegates were accommodated in MDP house. This large gathering
was supported by Fellow students of NITIE as volunteers - Shreya Maulik, Arundhati Guha Tahkurta,
Siddharth Tripathi, Chandan Kumar Jha, Shridhar M Samant and Sanjib Kumar Das.
Keynote speech by Dr. Anil Kakodkar
Felicitation of President IEA by President ISE
The conference started with pre-conference workshop on 6th Dec 2015 in which 6 parallel workshops
were conducted in the areas of i) Automotive Design for School Children by Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
ii) Wellness at Workplace byINTERIO Division of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. iii) Designing in an
Inclusive Way - Emergency Evacuation System by Mr. Charudatta Jadhav iv) Ergonomic Exposure
Assessment Methods for Manual Material Handling by Prof. Arun Garg v) Application of different
tools used in work posture assessment by Dr. Deepak Saran and vi) Product Design & Innovation by
Mr. Madan Kulkarni.
The conference also organized ‘Young Researchers Award’ programme on 6th December in the
categories of i) Under graduate ii) Post graduate and iii) Doctoral students. Winners in each category
have been awarded with certificates and gift voutures of USD 200, USD 150 and USD 100 for 1st , 2nd,
and 3rd positions respectively by Springer publication. Also Springer Publication has agreed publish
select number of papers as a special book entitled “Ergonomics in Caring for People - Proceedings of
International Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2015”. Select papers will be
published by International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics (IJHFE) in a special issue.
Manuscripts which would not find place in Springer and IJHFE will be published as conference
proceedings with ISBN registration.
Valedictory speech by Director NITIE
Organizing committee HWWE 2015
In the valediction ceremony conference baton has been transferred to the National Institute of
Technology Jalandhar, Punjab for hosting HWWE 2016.
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