Human Factors News Monthly Roundup (June 2021)
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Workplace pandemic protocols impact employee behavior outside work
Technology to monitor mental well-being might be right at your fingertips
Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain
Human Factors News
These consist of news stories that we have not covered on the show, but are still worthy of sharing!
Aerospace Systems / Aviation
- TSA Could Better Monitor Its Efforts to Reduce Infectious Disease Spread at Checkpoints
- To Fly a Drone in the U.S., You Now Must Pass FAA's TRUST Test
- Navy, Boeing Make Aviation History with MQ-25 Becoming the First Unmanned Aircraft to Refuel Another Aircraft
Aging
Augmented Cognition
Children's Issues
- Just Enough Information Will Motivate Young Children to Learn, Drive Curiosity
- Evidence Against Physically Punishing Kids Is Clear, Researchers Say
Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
- Cognitive and metabolic workload assessment techniques: A review in automotive manufacturing context
- A novel aggregated multiple criteria decision-making approach to evaluate the physical workload of workers
- Memory helps us evaluate situations on the fly, not just recall the past
- Algorithm exploitation: Humans are keen to exploit benevolent AI
- Men make more extreme choices and decisions, find scientists
- Overconfidence in news judgement and false news susceptibility
Cybersecurity
Defense
Environmental Design
Health Care
- Impact of COVID-19 on health and safety in the construction sector
- We collected 84 million tweets about the pandemic, here’s what we learned
- Too few women get to invent – that’s a problem for women’s health
- When Rudeness Becomes A Matter of Life or Death
- How has the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) affected mobility patterns?
- Inovio’s Electrical Device Zaps a COVID-19 Vaccine Into the Body
- The Rise of Neurotechnology Calls for a Parallel Focus on Neurorights
Human-AI-Robot Teaming
Perception and Performance
- A New Kind of Visual Illusion Uncovers How Our Brains Connect the Dots
- Detection of mental fatigue state using heart rate variability and eye metrics during simulated flight
- Tailored optical stimulation for the blind
- In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one
- Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
- Anyone can get super-hearing
Product Design
- Universal Control lets you use Macs and iPads like they're one machine
- Skin Displays Will Give Wearables Their Independence
Surface Transportation / Travel
- Deploying Transportation Resilience Practices in State DOTs
- Better Speed Valuation for Transportation Planning
- A national in-service safety law for automated vehicles
- Sociotechnical view of electric bike issues in China: Structured review and analysis of electric bike collisions using Rasmussen's risk management framework
- Prediction of Vehicle Trajectories at Intersections Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Evaluate Ohio Department of Transportation’s Ability to Decrease Dump Truck Backing Accidents (Phase 2)
- The Monetary and Non-Monetary Factors Influencing Travel Choices in an Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicle Future
- Comparing Twitter and LODES Data for Detecting Commuter Mobility Patterns
- Passenger Transportation Takes Off in New Directions
- Sick of dangerous city traffic? Remove left turns
- US car journeys rebound but morning rush hour holds off – for now
- Hacking and loss of driving skills major consumer concerns for self-driving cars
- Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State
- Assessment of Retroreflectivity of Pavement Markings
- How road users’ behaviors affect pedestrians’ and bicyclists’ safety
- Safety of driver assistance technologies
- The Business of Mobility: Helsinki Leads the Way in Urban Mobility
- Finally! Tesla starts using cabin cameras to monitor drivers using Autopilot
Usability and System Evaluation
Virtual Environments
- AR can improve the lives of older adults, so why are apps designed mainly for youngsters?
- Navigating a Virtual World Helped Older Adults’ Memory
Weekly News Roundups (June 2021)
- Human Factors Weekly News (06/01/21)
- Human Factors Weekly News (06/08/21)
- Human Factors Weekly News (06/15/21)
- Human Factors Weekly News (06/22/21)
- Human Factors Weekly News (06/29/21)
