Poster Session Season

This spring was a busy time! I presented at three poster sessions within a few weeks of each other: the North Carolina Cognition Conference, the Southeast Human Factors Applied Research Conference, and the First Year Project Poster Presentations for Human Factors and Applied Cognition graduate students at North Carolina State University.

Each poster session was a very different experience, with its own flavor and mix of research topics and presenters!

The NC Cognition Conference is an annual conference held by the NC Cognition Group, for cognitive professionals across the state. It’s held at a different location every year, and this year it was UNC Greensboro. There were two poster sessions, morning and afternoon, and each session was spread across multiple rooms. Most presenters were students like myself, and my lab was the only human factors group there. So I saw a lot of posters of cognitive research that was very different from my own! It was exciting to talk to the presenters and see how projects related and studied the same aspects of human cognition from different perspectives.

Me from the 2017 NCCC!

The second conference, cutely abbreviated as SHARC, was the first of its kind, and was organized by graduate students in the human factors area at NC State. This conference aimed to connect industry professionals and human factors students. Here too, the poster presenters were largely students. But this time, nearly all the posters were on applied human factors projects. It was an amazing opportunity to see the kind of research being done by human factors students across the southeast, and to get the chance to meet and network with members of my field!

Finally, the First Year Project Poster Session at NCSU only included students from my class in the human factors program: all seven of us presented our first year projects to other students and faculty from our program! It was a great chance to show and discuss what I’d been working on all year, and to see what the rest of my class cohort was working on as well! This session was the perfect way to wrap up my first year of graduate school.

Here’s to three successful poster sessions in the book, and many more to come!