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.
- At Theme Parks, You Must Be This Tall—and This Thin—to Ride
- Two decades after the Columbia disaster, is NASA’s safety culture fixed?
- Ageism: the last acceptable prejudice
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).
- The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims
- Boeing completes the last ever delivery of the iconic 747 jumbo jet
- Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’
- Microsoft rolls out Teams Premium with OpenAI-powered features
- UX people will soon have to collaborate with new professions
- Fatigue Crack Inspection Using Computer Vision and Augmented Reality
- Laying the Foundation for Extended Reality
- Systemic Inequality in the Airport Industry: Exploring the Racial Divide
- Learning with all your senses: Multimodal enrichment as the optimal learning strategy of the future
- Just one quality conversation with a friend boosts daily well-being, study shows
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