Human Factors Weekly News (07/06/21)
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.
- Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland
- What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything.
- An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse
- AirCar prototype completes its first inter-city flight
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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).
- First-ever Transient Pacemaker Harmlessly Dissolves in Body
- New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection
- Handheld Device Fights Fatigue by Stimulating Vagus Nerve
- Free Access to Thousands of COVID-19 Research Documents
- New AR System Alters Sight, Sound and Touch
- Exclusive Q&A: Neuralink’s Quest to Beat the Speed of Type
- Researchers Explore How Children Learn Language
- Smart technology is not making us dumber
- The sense of smell in older adults declines when it comes to meat, but not vanilla
- How children integrate information
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Nick Roome
Host/Producer
Nick is currently a Senior UX Researcher at Turvo in the Pacific Northwest, focused on developing innovative solutions and optimizing human performance for SaaS based supply chain logistics programs. Alongside colleague and friend, Blake Arnsdorff, Nick hosts and produces Human Factors Cast, a weekly podcast that investigates the sciences of human factors, psychology, engineering, biomechanics, industrial design, physiology and anthropometry and how it affects our interaction with technology. Nick’s other areas of interest include, but are not limited to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, systems engineering, and artificially intelligent systems.
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