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Aug. 29, 2022

Applying Human Factors in the real world - An Interview with Suzy Broadbent

Suzy Broadbent is a Fellow of the CIEHF with twenty years experience working in Human Factors across defence, rail and now healthcare domains. She gave the Institute Lecture at EHF2022. This discussion looks back at her career and then dives into how we apply Human Factors methods with pragmatism and…

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Aug. 25, 2022

E256 - We Have 8 BILLION Humans to Design for

Episode Link:https://www.humanfactorscast.media/256 Recorded live on August 25th, 2022, hosted by Nick Roome & Barry Kirby. The World Population Is Going to Hit 8 Billion Any Day Now https://futurism.com/the-byte/world-population-almost-eight-billion Image Source: Pexels Support us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humanfactorscast Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hfactorspodcast Merchandise Store: https://www.humanfactorscast.media/p/Store/ Human Factors Cast Socials: Twitch: https://twitch.tv/HumanFactorsCast YouTube:…

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Aug. 18, 2022

E255 (LIVE) - I've had it with these HF robots on this HF space station!

Episode Link:https://www.humanfactorscast.media/255 Recorded live on August 18th, 2022, hosted by Nick Roome & Barry Kirby. A Surgery-Performing Robot Is Ready for Tests on the International Space Station https://gizmodo.com/iss-surgery-robot-international-space-station-space-1849365142 Image Source: Pexels Support us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humanfactorscast Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hfactorspodcast Merchandise Store: https://www.humanfactorscast.media/p/Store/ Human Factors Cast Socials: Twitch: https://twitch.tv/HumanFactorsCast YouTube:…

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Aug. 14, 2022

Publishing Human Factors Books - An interview with Robert Bridger

We all have our "go to" reference book: but how do you go about writing and publishing such a thing? Past President of the CIEHF, Robert Bridger, gives us an insight into the art of writing, publishing and updating Human Factors books.

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Aug. 11, 2022

E254 (LIVE) - THE LINE is a new city without roads, cars, and emissions

Episode Link:https://www.humanfactorscast.media/254 Recorded live on August 11th, 2022, hosted by Nick Roome & Barry Kirby. HRH Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Announces Designs for THE LINE, The City of the Future in Neom https://www.neom.com/en-us/newsroom/hrh-announces-theline-designs Image Source: NEOM Support us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humanfactorscast Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hfactorspodcast Merchandise Store: https://www.humanfactorscast.media/p/Store/ Human…

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Aug. 4, 2022

E253 (LIVE) - User Perspective on Categorizing Chatbots and Voice Assistants

Episode Link:https://www.humanfactorscast.media/253 Recorded live on August 4th, 2022, hosted by Nick Roome & Barry Kirby. How to categorize conversational interfaces https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-categorize-the-different-conversational-interfaces-98c589a9d0 Image Source: Pexels Support us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humanfactorscast Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hfactorspodcast Merchandise Store: https://www.humanfactorscast.media/p/Store/ Human Factors Cast Socials: Twitch: https://twitch.tv/HumanFactorsCast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/HumanFactorsCast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanfactorscast Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/HFactorsPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumanFactorsCast…

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July 31, 2022

Human Factors in Iarnród Éireann - An interview with Nora Balfe

Iarnród Éireann, or Irish Rail, has its own share of Human Factors Challenges, and the person with the challenge of ensuring HF is kept up to standard is Nora Balfe. In this episode, Nora gives us an insight into the breadth and depth of her role and some of the…

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July 3, 2022

HF in Rail - An interview with David Golightly

David Golightly is a lecturer at Newcastle University and works in the field of cognitive ergonomics, understanding the factors that make technology and systems fit for the intended user's needs and cognitive abilities. In this episode he talks with Barry about the broad range of work he has been involved…

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June 23, 2022

RAF Safety and Just Culture

Over the past decade or so, the Royal Air Force has been going through a cultural evolution. In this episode, Ian and Avril give us an insight into how the implementation of Human Factors and the attitudes to safety has evolved and the positive impact it has had on the…

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June 19, 2022

The Surgical approach to Human Factors - An interview with Peter Brennan

Professor Peter Brennan is a NHS Consultant Surgeon in Portsmouth, specialising in head and neck cancer. Barry talks with him to see how he is driving Human Factors approaches from his perspective. To date, Peter has published over 700 publications including more than 80 on Human Factors and patient safety.…

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June 5, 2022

HFES - The Presidents Perspective - An interview with Chris Reid

Chris Reid is the Human Factors and Ergonomics Boeing Technical Fellow within the Environment, Health and Safety organization at Boeing. He is also the current President at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). In this interview, he tells Barry how he fell into ergonomics, some of his achievements and…

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May 22, 2022

Ergonomics and Human Factors Conference 2022 - Review

Barry talks to attendees and some of the key people behind the scenes about putting together EHF 2022 and what they thought of the result. Fair warning, this is the first time ever that Barry has put together a multi-person interview/montage and also first time using a complex media editor…

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April 17, 2022

Farming, Decision Making and IOT - An interview with John Owen

In this podcast, Barry interviews John Owen, Project Manager at Gelli Aur Farm, Coleg Sir Gar, where they teach agriculture students about using future technologies in farming, as well as providing cutting edge research utilising sensor technologies and IOT.

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April 3, 2022

The Burning Issue - An Interview with Nick Rutter from Fire Angel

Humans are currently blamed for the majority of damaging dwelling fires. An underlying reason behind that is a lack of knowledge of how people behave when waking up bleary eyed to a smoke or fire alarm. Nick Rutter, the co-founder of Fire Angel talks to Barry about how they are…

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March 9, 2022

Supporting Musculoskeletal Health - an interview with FLX Health and Arco

In this interview, the topic of musculoskeletal disorders are a leading cause of occupational ill health in the UK, accounting for 30% of all work-related ill health cases and 27% of lost working days. Affecting 14.9 million people nationally, and its costs the NHS over £5 billion per-year for treatment…

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Feb. 27, 2022

Human Factors in Healthcare - An interview with Tony Andre

Tony Andre is the founder of Interface Analysis Associates and has decades of experience applying Human Factors in the healthcare setting. Additionally he also started the international symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare it 11 years ago and now it is the main event in the field. The…

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Feb. 8, 2022

Human Factors in Agriculture - An interview with Jill Poots

A domain that has always held an attraction is Agriculture, and even more so with the development of technology that is being utilised to enable fewer people on a farm to do a lot more. From GPS enabled tractors to the use of IOT technology to ensure the soil and…

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Feb. 2, 2022

Working from home - getting serious about furniture - An Interview with Guy Osmond

Working from home has been a necessity throughout the pandemic, but now the idea of Hybrid Working is the "new normal". As we move from necessity to normal, we should also be moving from the dining room chair to something that is going to properly support us. Guy Osmond has…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Sensory Design, Wayfinding and #WorkshopOnACard – an Interview with Alastair Somerville

In a Bank Holiday Special, Barry caught up with Alastair Somerville, a Sensory Design Consultant who injects a much broader vision on UX by asking the question of "what are people capable of" rather than what they are not. Alastair also talks about how his approach to delivering workshops, and…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Deep Dive -Human Factors in Diving with Gareth Lock

This episode is a "deep dive" into the Human Factors aspects of Diving (see what I did there....). In this episode, Gareth talks about how he has brought his knowledge of Human Factors into the arena of Diving. In an industry that comprises a huge leisure and tourism sector as…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Just Culture – An interview with James Hayton

Culture is something that influences everything we do, so having the right culture can really make or break a business. in this episode, Barry interview James Hayton, the Human Factors and Safety Culture lead at Baines Simmons Ltd (https://www.bainessimmons.com/). The discussion looks at what a Just Culture is all about,…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Fatigue Risk Management – An interview with Sarah Booth

Our Performance can be hugely affected by the amount of Sleep that we get. Yet it is one of those subjects that can be difficult to engage with, never mind manage. In this episode, Sarah Booth, an expert in Fatigue Risk management with Baines Simmons highlights some of the issues…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Design for Everybody – An interview with CIEHF President -Amanda Widdowson

Being the CIEHF president is no mean undertaking, its a three year commitment, being the face of the Institute and representing members at different meetings and other organisations. But this year has been even more challenging because of the Pandemic. Amanda Widdowson was president-elect when the pandemic started and took…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Pushing the boundaries of Human Factors - An interview with Professor Paul Salmon

Paul Salmon is Professor in Human Factors and is the director of the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems at the University of the Sunshine Coast. In this interview he talks about how his interest in HF was sparked by Football boot design, and then goes on to highlight…

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