Posts Tagged ‘safety’
Qantas monitors brainwaves of pilots and passengers to test 19.5‑hour flight from NY to Sydney
_______________ Qantas’ first 19.5‑hour research flight from New York to Sydney takes off (Nine News): “Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, who today is in New York for the research flight, told Today Show via a live cross that he will be selecting an aircraft for the mammoth job by the year’s end, in line with a previous…
Read MoreNext: Mobile apps to assess brain waves and improve driving safety
. App With a Mind For Improving Transportation Safety (The Wall Street Journal): “A team of scientists from Indonesia has come up with a novel way to improve transportation safety in their country through a mobile app that scans transport operators’ brain waves and combines it with data on weather, vehicle and
Read MoreIncreasing cognitive loads on miners’ brains: good example of where society is heading
NIOSH to Study Cognitive Loads on Underground Coal Miners (Occupational Health & Safety): “NIOSH has published a notice outlining an interesting study it plans to undertake to understand the cognitive demands placed on underground coal miners by new safety devices they must carry, with the industry increasingly deploying wireless communication systems, personal dust monitors, and proximity detectors……
Read MoreAAA to deploy Brain Fitness Software DriveSharp to Assess and Train Older Driver’s Brains
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just started to recommend a new driver safety program called DriveSharp (see AAA and Posit Release Program to Improve Drivers’ Minds), developed by Posit Science. DriveSharp is a computerized cognitive assessment and training tool based on Karlene Ball’s research on older adults’ cognitive fitness and driving. In the press…
Read MoreBrain/ Cognitive Enhancement with drugs… and cereal?
Several recent articles and news: Brain Gain: the underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs (The New Yorker) — “Alex remains enthusiastic about Adderall, but he also has a slightly jaundiced critique of it. “It only works as a cognitive enhancer insofar as you are dedicated to accomplishing the task at hand,” he said. “The number of times…
Read MoreResearch on Older Driver’s Safety
Good article in the New York Times today: An Epidemic of Crashes Among the Aging? Unlikely, Study Says — “The (Insurance Institute for Highway Driving) insurance institute is conducting further research to determine why the risks appear to be going down for older drivers. It may be that today’s older drivers are simply in better physical and…
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