Human Factors Weekly News (08/17/21)
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.
- Wireless Soft Scalp Electronics and Virtual Reality System for Motor Imagery-Based Brain–Machine Interfaces
- Gender, personality influence use of interactive tools online
- Youth, the pandemic and a global mental health crisis
- Problems in thinking and attention linked to COVID-19 infection
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).
- Researchers take step toward next-generation brain-computer interface system
- Millennial Travelers Are More Multimodal than Older Travelers, but This Trend Might Change as They Age
- Assigned classroom seats can promote friendships between dissimilar students, study finds
- Fight-or-flight response is altered in healthy young people who had COVID-19
- How digital beauty filters perpetuate colorism
- US Government Investigating Tesla Autopilot for Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles
- Law Experts Ponder Whether Sex Robots Should Be Legal
- Indian rocket suffers catastrophic failure during launch, Earth-watching satellite lost
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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.
Human Factors Weekly News 22AUG2023
