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
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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