Human Factors Weekly News (09/14/21)
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.
- Law Enforcement, First Responder and Crash Investigation Preparation for Automated Vehicle Technology
- Using flow disruptions to understand healthcare system safety: A systematic review of observational studies
- Check out our past interviews with some of the authors:
- Check out our past interviews with some of the authors:
- Do screens really hurt kids? Not much, and they may have some benefits
- Emoji are proposed as a powerful way for patients and doctors to communicate
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).
- Pandemic tech left out public health experts. Here’s why that needs to change.
- Exosuit That Helps With the Heavy Lifting
- Adolescent Mental Health? There’s a ‘Vaccine’ for That
- A New Way to Understand—and Possibly Treat—OCD
- What the Brain Shows: The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Creative Arts Therapies
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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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