Human Factors Weekly News (08/31/21)
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.
- Green Waves, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics: Making Streets Better for People on Bikes
- The Impact of Smartphone Applications on Trip Routing
- A new model for group decision-making shows how 'followers' can influence the outcome
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).
- Tiny Lasers Could Finally Bring Us Really Smart AR Glasses
- Measuring speed management strategies
- Improving transportation equity
- Turning cameras off during virtual meetings can reduce fatigue
- Unease beyond the uncanny valley: How people react to the same faces
- Science-backed tips for maximizing play time with kids
- New research finds gender differences in fear and risk perception during COVID-19
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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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