Human Factors Weekly News (09/28/21)
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.
- New augmented reality applications assist astronaut repairs to space station
- How the U.S. ARMY is Turning Robots into Team Players
- Pandemic Healthcare Innovation Led To Wearable Treatments
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).
- Extending the Ecological Interface Design process—Integrated EID
- Sharing lessons learnt: Reflections on a novel approach to developing the contextual activity template
- Space Tourist Toilet Issues Were So Bad That They Set Off An Alarm
- Thousands of Scientific Studies Disrupted By TikTok Teen
- New bionics center established at MIT with $24 million gift
- MIT's toolkit lets anyone design their own muscle-sensing wearables
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Photo Credit:
- Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels
- Photo by U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
- Photo by Fisher Wallace Laboratories
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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