The 2022 Ergonomics Society of Taiwan Annual Meeting and Conference was held in Niantzi International Conference Hall of STUST from March 11 to 13, 2022. The theme of this year's annual meeting is "Aspects of Ergonomic Engineering in the Post-pandemic Era," which discussed the development of ergonomic engineering in products, services, systems, and policies under the influence of COVID-19.

[A group photo of The 29th Ergonomics Society of Taiwan Annual Meeting and Conference]】

For the special lectures of the society this year, the society particularly invited Convener Shu-Kai Fan, of the Engineering Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology; General Manager Yin-Hsiong Hsu of Acer Intelligent Medicine, Director Su Guowei of the Asset Management Department of Hi-Tech University , Vice President Li-Shing Ouyang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wen-Long Liang Chairman of Zuozhen Co., Ltd.,President Shi-Ming Li of D3A investment Chairman and Professor Yong-Ching Liu from the Department of Engineering and Management, Yunlin University of Science and Technology to gave professional lectures on such topics as artificial intelligence, smart medical care, human-computer interaction design, armament ergonomics, metaverse, innovation and entrepreneurship experience, and driving technology.

This annual meeting brought together research elites and industry leaders from all walks of life related to the research and application of ergomonic engineering in the form of three special lectures, four forums, student papers and design competitions, and various academic seminars. Through student essay competitions, student creativity competitions, special research awards and forums, and annual membership meetings and academic seminars, members could exchange their research results and experience of various advanced experts and scholars, so that participants could learn more knowledge and experience and that ergonomic engineering future career development can be more sophisticated.

The conference forum invited experts and scholars from medical industry, occupational safety, national defense, military and design ergonomics, as well as advanced industries and other related fields. It integrated industry-government-academic resources and achieved the purpose of full exchange among industry, academia, and research. It also improved the coverage of ergonomic design, situational technology, and smart manufacturing to develop more cross-disciplinary professionals and face future challenges. The theme of the Medical Ergonomic Forum is pivoted on "Development of Smart Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, and Ergonomic Engineering." The theme of the Occupational Safety and Health Ergonomics Forum was "Status and Future Prospects of Repetitive Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention in Pandemic." The National Defense Ergonomics Forum focused on two themes, namely, "Anthropometry and Equipment Development Design" and "Ergonomics Viewed from Armament." The theme of the Ergonomic Design was "Curatorial Experience Transmission and Post-pandemic Challenges."

Students from various universities participated in the seminar together. There were 18 paper competitions, 62 competition designs, and 123 papers for publication. The first place in the student paper competition was Yi-Ting Lin and Zhi-Yu Shiao, tw students from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University. The student thematic design competition was won by Yu-Kuan Mo, Pei-Yang Su, Rui-Ling Lin, Yu-Zhen He, and Jin-Tsi Wang, students from the Department of Creative Product Design, STUST. There was a valuable opportunity to get to know and learn from each other with senior scholars and experts. (Please refer to the list of winners: http://est.org.tw/est2022/student_p_competition.html)http://est.org.tw/est2022/student_p_competition.html)

Deng-Maw Lu , President of STUST, said that the annual meeting and seminar of the Ergonomic Engineering Society of Taiwan has been held for 29 years since 1993. The papers published and the participants in the previous meetings have been very enthusiastic. It is not only indispensable to the academic world, but also has mase contributions to the academic promotion of Ergonomic Engineering. It offers a perfect stage for scholars and graduate students to publish their research and working experience, building a bridge of communication between research elites in different fields with Ergonomic Engineering.