Nov. 16, 2021
Human Factors Weekly News (11/16/21)
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.
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).
- Pilot decision-making during a dual engine failure on take-off: Insights from three different decision-making models
- Novel approach to estimate endurance limits in intermittent tasks
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