Human Factors Weekly News
Welcome to the Human Factors Cast Weekly News Roundup, a weekly roundup of all news related to Human Factors, Psychology, Design, and Technology as it relates to humans. These stories are selected as potential topics for Human Factors Cast's weekly podcast. Want this in your RSS/Feed reader? Grab our RSS Feed here.
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.
- Friends enjoy being reached out to more than we think
- Social interactions tied to sense of purpose
- Doctors using AI catch breast cancer more often than either does alone
- Smart textiles sense how their users are moving
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).
- Human-like robots may be perceived as having mental states
- How Society Thinks About Risk
- Shapeshifting microrobots can brush and floss teeth
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