Human Factors Weekly News (08/24/21)
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.
- Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging
- Parallel and distributed encoding of speech across human auditory cortex
- Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots
- Facebook gets VR meetings right with Horizon Workrooms
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).
- FAA proposes more than $500,000 in new fines against unruly airline passengers
- Think leisure is a waste? That may not bode well for your mental health
- Online Product Displays Can Shape Your Buying Behavior
- Tailoring wearable technology and telehealth in treating Parkinson’s disease
- Emberometer could gauge threat of wildfire-spreading embers
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- Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels
- Photo by Tesla
- Photo by Facebook
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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