Human Factors Weekly News
Welcome to the Human Factors Cast Weekly News Roundup, a weekly roundup of all news related to Human Factors, Psychology, Design, and Technology as it relates to humans. These stories are selected as potential topics for Human Factors Cast's weekly podcast. Want this in your RSS/Feed reader? Grab our RSS Feed here.
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.
- VR Startup Working on Tech to "Replay" Memories
- How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Academia
- Approaching AI takeover and how to remain relevant
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).
- A Software Bug Caused Two Alaska Airlines Flights to Suffer Tailstrikes on the Same Morning
- Improving trust in autonomous technology
- New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible
- How to create, release, and share generative AI responsibly
- Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects
- Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology”
- Robot helps students with learning disabilities stay focused
- CityU develops wireless, soft e-skin for interactive touch communication in the virtual world
- Why all of Hollywood UI looks the same
- An AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours
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