News
2026
- Invited seminar at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research InstituteDr. Park will speak at the ACHRI Child Health & Wellness Seminar on a human factors view of caregiver requirements for a pediatric inhaler.
- Alberta Graduate Excellence ScholarshipJihyun Kim received the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES).
- K-TAG Technical Seminar, AKCSEDr. Park gave the talk From Muscle to Mission: Human-Centred AI That Keeps People in Charge, from Prosthetic Hands to Emergency Response.
- Space-Defence Technologies Alberta: BlueTraceFundingDr. Park leads BlueTrace: Edge-AI Blue-State Breadcrumbs for Human-Robot Situational Awareness with co-PIs S. Yanushkevich, T. O’Neill and G. Iaria.
- Major Innovation Fund, Government of AlbertaFundingThe HERO lab received support from the Government of Alberta’s Major Innovation Fund for a neuroergonomics study.
- Invited talks in KoreaDr. Park spoke at Seoul National University (NeuroSomatic AI: Teaching Machines to Read the Body Before They Act), Kwangwoon University and Jeonbuk National University.
- Fessenden-Trott ScholarshipAndrew Choi received a Fessenden-Trott Scholarship, one of up to four awarded at the bachelor’s level.
- International graduate tuition awardsHamid Salmani Nodooshan and Jihyun Kim received Faculty of Graduate Studies tuition funding.
- HFES Human Performance Modeling TG Best Student Paper AwardAndrew Choi and Daniel Choi won for From Workload to Embodiment: Prosthetic Embodiment Score (PES).
- HFES Annual Meeting Honorable MentionJihyun Kim’s paper on multi-agent AR decision support for rural emergency department triage received an Honorable Mention.
- Two papers at ACM CHI 2026Jihyun Kim and R. West presented work on workload-adaptive XR assistance for NG911 dispatch and perceptual scaffolding for medical triage.
- NSERC Discovery Grant, 2026–2031FundingDr. Park received an NSERC Discovery Grant with an Early Career Researcher supplement for Symbiotic Embodiment: Engineering the Human–AI Partnership in Prosthetics. The program develops human–AI prosthetic systems that balance embodiment, agency and cognitive workload through multimodal sensing and adaptive intelligence.
- Student awardsJihyun Kim received a Graduate College Graduate Award, a Transdisciplinary Scholarship and a Transdisciplinary Travel Grant. Andrew Choi received an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award for Reducing Workload While Preserving Dynamic Agency in Myoelectric Prosthesis Control. Zara Shiraz received the Dr. Jan Joseph Havlena Award for Adaptive Myoelectric Intent Decoding for Upper-Limb Prosthetic Control.
- Elected chair of the HFES Human Performance Modeling TGDr. Park was elected chair of the HFES Human Performance Modeling Technical Group, serving as vice chair in 2026 and chair in 2027.
- Elected chair of the HFES Augmented Cognition TGDr. Park was elected chair of the HFES Augmented Cognition Technical Group, serving as vice chair in 2026 and chair in 2027.
2025
- HFES Sue Bogner Best Student Paper AwardZehaan Walji, Reyansh Badhwar and Parshva Dave won third place for multi-agent systems for remote healthcare.
- Nursing Endowment GrantFundingDr. Park is a co-applicant on Advancing Nursing Education: Embedding Perceptual-Cognitive Skills in Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation Teaching, led by Dr. Shannon Parker.
- Workshop at IEEE ISMAR 2025Dr. Park organized the 1st International Workshop on XR & AI for Serious and Critical Applications, where the lab presented two papers.
- HFES Travel AwardZehaan Walji received a travel award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
- Faculty of Graduate Studies ScholarshipJihyun Kim received a Faculty of Graduate Studies scholarship.
- Min Byung Kee AwardDaniel Choi received the 2025 Min Byung Kee Award from the Calgary Korean Scholarship Foundation.
- NSERC Discovery Grant Bridge FundFundingDr. Park received bridge funding for Revolutionizing Upper-Limb Prosthetic Hand Control through Precision Naturalistic Multimodal Modeling.
- One Child Every Child Major ProgramFundingDr. Park is a co-applicant on PATCH: Platform Advancements in Technology for Child Health.
- Creative Sentencing, Government of AlbertaFundingDr. Park is a co-applicant on a project to improve safe work practices in hoisting, rigging and lifting operations. Press release.
- Transdisciplinary Connector Grant: CONNECTFundingDr. Park is a co-applicant on CONNECT: Redesigning Peripheral Vascular Access with Patients as Co-Researchers.
- VPR Catalyst Grant: adaptive pediatric orthosisFundingDr. Park is a co-applicant on groundwork for an AI-powered, continuously fitting pediatric ankle-foot orthosis (AP-AFO).
- Schulich Momentum Fund: LivingGuardFundingDr. Park leads LivingGuard, an AI-driven smart home for proactive detection of and intervention in cognitive decline.
- Transdisciplinary Connector Grant: AAHRCFundingDr. Park leads the AI-powered All-Hazard Response Center (AAHRC) with multi-agency partners.
- PURE AwardUndergraduate researcher Divakar Gaba received a PURE Award.
- W21C Summer StudentshipUndergraduate researcher Ali received a 2025 W21C Summer Undergraduate Studentship.