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
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Host and Producer
Nick Roome hosts and produces Human Factors Cast, a public science communication program of Human Factors Cast Foundation Limited. His work on the program focuses on making human factors, psychology, engineering, ergonomics, design, safety, and human-systems research accessible to practitioners, students, and the public.
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