Product Design

• Cochlear Implants: For Many an End to Silence

  Many formerly deaf people can now hear, in part, because of psychology.

• Why Lime-Yellow Fire Trucks Are Safer Than Red

  Human factors and ergonomics researchers have found that bright yellow vehicles are less likely to be involved in accidents.

• Pushing Buttons: The Invention of the Phone Keypad

  Human factors redesigns the phone.

• Undoing Dyslexia via Video Games

  Psychologists and neuroscientists are using new techniques to identify the source of language and reading problems such as dyslexia in the brain and create neural processing exercises disguised as computer video games to significantly improve children's language learning and reading.

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