I wanted to start off today with a parable that you’re likely familiar with: “A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of…
I wanted to check in and update everyone on my current where-abouts: I’ve moved to Canberra, Australia to work for Seeing Machines as a Research Scientist in their Human Factors division. I’ll be working on making Driver Monitoring Systems and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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…
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8mynrRd7Ak&feature=player_embedded#!] I’m fairly certain we all understand that feeling.