President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

New Year Message of the Year of Snake (Little Dragon)
February 10, 2013
Dear IEA members, colleagues, and friends,
Today is the New Year’s Day of the Chinese Year of Snake which has anickname of “Little Dragon”. Traditionally, we greet and congratulate to friends
for the Chinese Lunar New Year with all kind of good words relate to the zodiac
animal of the year. In Chinese culture, snake is not necessarily represents evil,
it also symbolizes quickness, flexibility, dexterity, and smoothness. Therefore, I
would convey my best wishes to you and wish you a smooth Year of the Little
Dragon, 2013.

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All-Ukrainian Ergonomics
Association
Asociación Española DeErgonomia
Asociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Association of Canadian
Ergonomists
Belgian Ergonomics Society
Brazilian ErgonomicsAssociation
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Indian Society of Ergonomics
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
AssociationIranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics SocietyIsraeli Ergonomics SocietyJapan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic SocietyÖ sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
Society
Swiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

New Year’s Day is also the time for evaluating the performance of the past
year and setting up the plan for the new year. While looking back, I found it has
been almost one year since we had the Council meeting in Recife, Brazil. For
the past year, although some of the executive activities had been done as I
mentioned in my newsletter of December 24, 2012, the development of theexecutive team and the associated activities were slower than I planned.
Therefore, for the work plan in the year of little dragon, we have to beaccelerating and plan to add at least two new EC members by next EC
meeting scheduled on April 12 and 13 in Cambridge, UK, prior to theconference of Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013.
It is also our goal to enhance and encourage communications among IEA
member societies, partner societies, governmental bodies, and otherstakeholders by turning the IEA President’s Newsletter into IEA public
newsletter for more interactions among ergonomics community. We believethat communicating with others makes people know each other better andbecomes more knowledgeable. We welcome any news articles, from ourmember societies and our partners, that are to share with the other colleagues
worldwide. Please submit your articles to Margo Fraser, the Vice President andSecretary General, at vpsg@iea.cc.
IEA is a big family that consists of you and me and needs everybody’s care toensure its success and sustainability. We look forward and appreciate yoursupport and suggestions. Let us work together for promoting ergonomics.
Again, I wish you have a prosperous year of little dragon!

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All-Ukrainian Ergonomics
Association
Asociación Española De
Ergonomia
Asociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Association of CanadianErgonomists
Belgian Ergonomics Society
Brazilian Ergonomics
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic SocietyErgonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Indian Society of Ergonomics
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
Association
Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics SocietyJapan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic SocietyÖ sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
SocietySwiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4