Just Say No to Agile
I've avoided speaking out on the evils of Agile in this blog, but after watching the erosion of human factors as a discipline within the...


Mirror, Mirror <or> Let's Not Limit Healthcare Practices
Sometimes you meet a reflection of yourself, and it’s a version of your highest, aspirational self. Sometimes you meet your reflection,...


Standardized, Patient-Centered Narratives Promote Medication Compliance
It's the frustration of parents, teachers, doctors, dentists, and therapists everywhere: whatever you say seems to go in one ear and out...


Self-healing, Artificial Muscle Material
<Movie Guy Voice> In the winter of December 2016, a group of scientists created a new material, inspired by the comic book character...
Farewell to Bifocals?!?
Gah! I'm so excited by this idea, I can barely form words! As part of my January promise to myself to deep clean my house, I finally took...


Do You Prevent or Perpetuate? What Kind of Person Are You?
I find it unforgivable in this modern age when someone tells me it's " too much work" to fix a data problem or workflow. Too much work?...


Football & Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Just this week, The Washington Post published an article citing a study done at Boston University School of Medicine and the VA Boston...


Parafoveal Vision - The Unsung and Under-researched Hero
In my fairly uninformed opinion, the first half of the Gordon Research Conference was pretty fixated on finer details of saccade...
Eye Trackers - The Big Players, and Their Role in Health
Unlike the well-to-do students at various grad schools, my alma mater seemed rather ... homespun, at best. Perhaps it was to help foster...


Free Driving Simulator: Lane Change Test
Day 2.5 of the Gordon Research Conference for Eye Movement: It's a funny thing how I'm reaching into my Human Factors and Ergonomics bag...