Human Factors News Monthly Roundup (September, 2022)
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Top News
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We may never fully know how video games affect our well-being
Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens
The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too
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
- Astronaut Shows How to Perform CPR in Zero Gravity
- New Government Report Is Extremely Bad News for NASA
- Development of a Small Aircraft Runway Length Analysis Tool
Augmented Cognition
Children's Issues
- Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
- Scientists Asked Students to Try to Fool Anti-Cheating Software. They Did.
- What is the best way to group students?
- Study suggests watching TV with your child can help their cognitive development
Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Communications
- SNAFU: The Air Force Just Survived a Reply-All Apocalypse
- Sharing on Social Media Makes Us Overconfident in Our Knowledge
- Crypto Guy: Desperately Poor People Could Be NPCs in Video Games
- Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions
- The ups and downs of the UXR job market
Education
Environmental Design
Health Care
Human-AI-Robot Teaming
- Historian Warns That AI Is Likely to Cause Human Extinction
- Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026
- AI has a UX problem
Human-Computer Interaction
Perception and Performance
- Changing Perceptions about Harm Can Temper Moral Outrage
- What You Know Changes How You See Things
- Even smartest AI models don’t match human visual processing
- Program to increase performance and well-being
Product Design
- Wearables take ‘logical’ step toward onboard control
- The rise of the TikTok pattern
- This New VR Gadget Looks Like an Actual Torture Device
Surface Transportation / Travel
- Ford drivers could get alerts from nearby pedestrians’ phones
- A Real-Time Proactive Intersection Safety Monitoring and Visualization System Based on Radar Sensor Data
Usability and System Evaluation
- A Taxonomy of Common UX Research Methods
- Evaluation of Three SEQ Variants
- A checklist for prioritising web accessibility
Virtual Environments
- GIST Scientists Develop Model that Adjusts Videogame Difficulty Based on Player Emotions
- Embracing CX in the metaverse
- Gamers can have their cake and eat it too
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