Human Factors Weekly News
Our Top News Stories
These consist of news stories that we feel have enough substance to them to justify a 20-30 minute segment on the podcast. Our Patreons decide which topics we discuss on the show from these types of news stories.
- Coping with complexity in the COVID pandemic: An exploratory study of intensive care units
- Surveys with repetitive questions yield bad data, study finds.
- Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries
Human Factors News
These consist of news stories that have a human factors application, but may just be a brief one-liner (e.g. not a whole lot to talk about but cool enough for us to share).
- A virtual reality 'Shopping Task' could help test for cognitive decline in adults
- Learning to enjoy cognitive effort
- New device lets people who are blind "see" in infrared
- A bioelectronic tongue ‘tastes’ sweetness
- The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant
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