COPPE's Ergonomics and New Technologies Group (GENTE) is one of the main Ergonomics Research and Development groups in Latin America, led by Professor Mario Cesar Vidal, one of the oldest Ergonomics professionals working in Brazil. GENTE is a multi-user laboratory dedicated to Training, Research and Development of Ergonomics in Latin America since 1991.

The purpose of the group is to bring together students, at different levels of education and alumni, in a national scientific cooperation network to carry out integrated projects, joint publications and exchange and mobility for national sandwich internships, post-doctorate and other forms of integration such as the BResil Network, which integrates six universities and research centers nationwide, with international cooperation events with Canada, France and China.

The network has made publications on various topics, but always within the context of research and development of Ergonomics of complex systems and Engineering of resilience. In the didactic field, it is one of the national groups that has published the most books in Portuguese on methods, techniques and case studies, since 2003. In general, the group remains among the most productive in the country.

The group includes Professor Paulo Victor Carvalho from IEN-CNEM, Professors Alessandro Jatobá and Hugo Cesar Bellas from Fiocruz, Professor Maria Christine Werba Saldanha from UFPB, and Ricardo José Matos de Carvalho from UFRN, in addition to a group of Master's and PhD students from PEP.