Human Factors Weekly News (08/10/21)
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.
- Women, early-career academics more likely to feel like 'impostors' in disciplines that prize brilliance, study finds
- NYUAD Researchers Demonstrate Effectiveness of 3D Visualization as a Learning Tool
- AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
- The effect of the coronavirus pandemic on public transportation
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).
- Development and Demonstration of an In-Vehicle Lane Departure Warning System using Standard GPS Technology
- 'Why you gotta be so rude?' Study highlights 'vicious cycle' of workplace incivility
- Why people snub their friends with their phone
- Wearable technology can help in at-home assessment of myoclonic jerks
- High-dose gait training with robotic exoskeleton may improve function after acute stroke
- All in Your Head: Exploring Human-Body Communications with Binaural Hearing Aids
- Every Car Made After 2027 May Have Drunk Driving Monitoring System
- Resilience Research Becoming a Bigger Part of Transportation Planning
- Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries
- New Study Examines Privacy and Security Perceptions of Online Education Proctoring Services
- Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices
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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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