Human Factors Weekly News (12/21/21)
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.
- Virtual Conferences are Better for the Environment and More Inclusive
- Using ergonomics to reduce pain from technology use
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).
- Solutions for Providing Internet Access to Rural Area
- Children as Social Robot Designers
- Understanding and Communicating Reliability of Crash Prediction Models
- Options for Improving the Safety of DUKW Type Amphibious Vessels
- One algorithm to rule decision-making
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- Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels
- Video by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA from Pexels
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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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