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HFES Webinar: Teaching LLMs to See, Hear, and Respond for Situational Awareness

10/09/2025

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) will host a webinar to explore the technical requirements and architecture required for Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop situational awareness.

While LLMs have demonstrated capabilities in domain knowledge, contextual understanding, and reasoning, the question is whether they can achieve true situational awareness comparable to humans.

The webinar, sponsored by ACTG, will examine five critical components:

  • Accuracy of general and domain-specific knowledge
  • Environmental perception (audio/visual processing of human participants)
  • System state awareness (real-time data integration)
  • Agency and environmental interaction
  • Advanced reasoning capabilities

Expert Michael Hildebrandt, senior human factors researcher at the Institute for Energy Technology in Norway, will demonstrate how an LLM agent can observe simulator training sessions and provide detailed qualitative feedback. Participants will gain practical insights for implementing similar approaches in their own domains.

Access more information and register for the webinar, to take place on November 6 at 11:00 a.m. ET.


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