Today is July 22nd, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome, Blake Arnsdorff with special guest Jeff Olson. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS 35 Injured on Air Canada Flight to Australia After Aircraft Hits 'Sudden Turbulence' https://gizmodo.com/35-injured-on-air-canada-flight-to-australia-after-airc-1836296050 Video Captures Delta Air Lines MD-88 Engine Failing Mid-Flight…
Today is June 26th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Senators reveal plans for national self-driving car legislation -RE2 is making bomb-defusing robots as intuitive to control as your own hands -A tiny sensor turns any stationary bike into a…
Today is June 13th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Director of Typing-by-Brain Project Discusses How Facebook Will Get Inside Your Head -Facebook's new maps will help responders during natural disasters -Your Car's Tires Could Soon Know When Roads Are…
Today is June 5th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -FDA Assembles Team to Oversee AI Revolution in Health -Google Sheets now uses machine learning to help you visualize your data -This is how a self-driving car ‘sees’ the road…
Today is May 29th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Wearable Devices Communicate Vital Brain Activity Information -Fitness trackers accurately measure heart rate but not calories burned -Change at work linked to employee stress, distrust and intent to quit -3…
Today is July 8th, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Simple ‘smart’ glass reveals the future of artificial vision https://www.engr.wisc.edu/simple-smart-glass-reveals-future-artificial-vision/ User in yer face is an online museum of design horrors https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/07/04/user-in-yer-face-is-an-online-museum-of-design-horrors/ With little training, machine-learning algorithms…
Today is May 22nd, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Safety Benefits of Highway Infrastructure Investments -New Google Maps Update Makes It Even Harder To Get Lost -WannaCry Update: Microsoft Pushes a Digital Geneva Convention -Researchers look to boost crowdsourced…
Today is May 15th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Elyse Hallett. -Latest PLA Safety Campaign Targets Human Error | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide -Blind runners are finding their own way thanks to new sonic tech -CHI 2017: Interesting…
Today is May 8th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Astrobee: The Adorable Little Robot That’ll Soon Jet Around the ISS -Veo Robotics gives industrial robots a sixth sense for safely working around people -Language shapes how the brain perceives…
Today is May 1st, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Google tweaks Search to help combat ‘fake news’ -FaceApp apologizes for building a racist AI -DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain to Make You Learn Faster -Drunk man may have…
Today is July 1st, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Researchers developed a sensing system to constantly track the performance of workers https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/29/researchers-developed-a-sensing-system-to-constantly-track-the-performance-of-workers/ MIT’s new interactive machine learning prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/27/mits-new-interactive-machine-learning-prediction-tool-could-give-everyone-ai-superpowers/ ‘Alexa,…
Today is June 18rd, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Europe publishes common drone rules, giving operators a year to prepare https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/europe-publishes-common-drone-rules-giving-operators-a-year-to-prepare/ Uber Elevate wants to deliver Big Macs by drone starting this summer https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/12/uber-elevate-drone-deliveries-san-diego/ Uber Claims…
Today is April 17th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff, and Mia Jaramillo. -MasterCard trials biometric bankcard with embedded fingerprint reader -Facebook is building a brain-computer interface -Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform -MIT's…
Today is April 17th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -GM plans to deploy hundreds of autonomous vehicles across the country for testing -Cadillac’s Answer to a Self-Driving Puzzle: Shoving a Camera in Your Face -Air Force tests air-to-ground strikes…
Today is April 10th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Daimler and Bosch: fully autonomous cars within 5 years -Mercedes Promises Self-Driving Taxis in Just Three Years -Driverless pods begin ferrying the public around Greenwich -Waze's traffic data could help…
Today is April 3rd, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. -Windows Creators Update Is Full of Neat Tricks You'll Never Use -Congress Just Gave Internet Providers the Green Light to Sell Your Browsing History Without Consent -You Can Now Beg…
Today is March 28th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Mia Jaramillo. -Sting Operation Reveals Science's Insane Fake News Problem gizmodo.com/sting-operation-rev…ws-probl-1793523135 -Walmart’s Vudu app now converts your physical movies to digital for $2 each techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/walmar…-2-each/?ncid=rss -Hackers try to extort…
Today is March 21st, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Nick Porter. -Moon shoes for astronauts -Buzz Aldrin’s VR Experience -Lowes uses AR/VR -Alexa + animatronic skull -Intel’s genderless AI -Rapping Robots -Skull drilling robot -Autonomy in surgery -DARPA’s…
Today is June 10rd, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Driverless cars: once they're on the road, human drivers should be banned phys.org/news/2019-06-driverl…eyre-road-human.html A first look at Amazon’s new delivery drone techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/a-firs…livery-drone/amp/ Jaco Is a Low-Power Robot…
Today is June 3rd, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Intelligent pedestrian traffic lights: New system by TU Graz automatically recognises pedestrians’ intent to cross the road https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/media-service/singleview/article/denkende-fussgaengerampeln-neues-system-der-tu-graz-erkennt-kreuzungswunsch-automatisch0/ Human Reflexes Help MIT’s HERMES Rescue Robot Keep Its…
Today is March 14th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -CIA’s hacking technique -Taser’s nightmare surveillance -More jobs for drone pilots -Airbus’ flying pod -Technology is a behavior problem -Airbnb wants community, not AI -Hamburger flipping robot -Facebook’s plan for…
Today is 3/7/2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Alexa. -NASA's free software -Amazon Web Services -Yelp will help you find a gender neutral bathroom -Walmart express lanes -Google Play Games rated on user engagement -Xbox game pass -Nintendo Switch…
Today is February 27, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff. -Selecting mates based on "wish list" -Would you want to know the future? -YouTube gets 1 billion hours of views a day -JavaScript based driving algorithm -Communicating with BCIs -Bonding…
Today is May 27th, 2019 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff. HUMAN FACTORS NEWS Tesla on Autopilot Slams into stalled car on highway, expect more of this… https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2019/05/26/tesla-on-autopilot-rams-into-stalled-car-on-highway-expect-more-of-this/#6ed20084fe51 DHL launches its first regular fully-automated and intelligent urban drone delivery service https://www.dpdhl.com/en/media-relations/press-releases/2019/dhl-launches-its-first-regular-fully-automated-and-intelligent-urban-drone-delivery-service.html…
