HFES 2017, Austin – Retrospective
I’m fresh back from a long week at the 2017 Human Factors & Ergonomics Society annual meeting. I’m sorry for the delay, but it’s taken awhile to compile all of the notes. This was my 6th HFES, and I’m glad…
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6 Reasons Why You’re Not as Rational As You Think
We’re all familiar with the staggering incompetence that human beings can display. It can be frustrating to be an observer to the destructive, clueless behavior of others. The internet abounds with examples of this sort of behavior. It is easy…
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Schelling Games: The Art of Coordination
Let’s say that you and a friend are touring New York City together and end up separated, with no way to communicate between each other? Where do you meet? When? Popular culture has focused on the analysis of of…
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Empathy
In a recent piece of news, a dolphin distressed by a fish-hook sought out human divers to provide assistance. This, while heartwarming, has several distinct levels of astounding attached to it: How did the dolphin know to ask people for…
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Continuum Visit
During my trip to Boston for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting, I got to go on a tour of Continuum, a innovative design consultancy. It was incredibly fascinating and resulted in a semi-permanent “kid in a candy…
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Aggie Engineer: CHIAD Writeup
There’s a new write-up of the Creative Haptic Interaction At-a-Distance project that I’ve been working on for the past year-and-a-half or so, over at The Aggie Engineer!
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Swarming and Trading Algorithms
My friend, Mel White, was kind enough to take on a question that has been buzzing around in my head for awhile, particularly after the Bio-Inspired Swarms panel at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual conference (Mike Goodrich’s visualizations were…
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Unequal Compensation
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8mynrRd7Ak&feature=player_embedded#!] I’m fairly certain we all understand that feeling.
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Resource Use
Over at Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao just put out a really fascinating, fragmented ramble through waste and its impact on the discussion of scarcity versus abundance titled Waste, Creativity and Godwin’s Corollary for Technology. In it, Rao puts forward several intriguing…
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Why Human Factors?
As a human factors student, I usually encounter blank confusion when casually discussing work. In many technical disciplines it’s common to need an education to even begin to understand the basic ideas behind a field. This is why many engineering…