Panel: Community Organizations and Human-Centered Design: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection

This panel aims to discuss the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of community organizations and human-centered design. Community organizations play a crucial role in addressing local needs and implementing interventions that involve the design and delivery of products, processes, policies, places, and pedagogy (5Ps), but they face significant challenges in identifying resources and translating needs and evidence into design solutions. Human factors engineering (HFE) can contribute to addressing these challenges through structured frameworks, tools, and methods for human-centered design. However, HFE researchers and practitioners might lack know-how about best practices to engage in the community and address these challenges. This panel aims to bring together HFE experts in design, user experience, and entrepreneurial thinking; accessibility experts with industry experience; a community outreach expert; and partners from community organizations to discuss key challenges and needs of community partners in the design and delivery of 5Ps, and how HFE researchers and industry experts can address these challenges.

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