Human Factors Weekly News (07/13/21)

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.

• VR study finds vertical greenery useful as stress buffer
• Drama llama or sleep deprived? New study uncovers how consistent sleep loss impacts mental and physical well-being

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).

• Technology that restores the sense of touch in nerves damaged as a result of injury
• Training helps teachers anticipate how students with learning disabilities might solve problems
• Governing commercial space transportation
• A new look at colour displays
• Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson complete first fully crewed spaceflight
• World's deepest pool opens in Dubai, part of huge underwater city
• Virtual learning may help NICU nurses recognize baby pain
• Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read

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Photo Credit:

• Photo by Francesco Ungaro from Pexels
• Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels
• Photo by Virgin Galactic