We had a short week in EID to take a well-deserved
Thanksgiving break and enjoy some time with our families. I hope you all did the same. Even so, we had some good posts in the early
half of the week. All of them have a
positive, holiday feel to them.
We started with a story about wearable computers for blue
collar workers. It is amazing how some
ingenuity and user centered design can take a traditionally low tech job and
apply some technology to make it better, faster, and safer.
Tuesday focused on intractable conflicts, not exactly a
happy topic on the surface. But if we
can learn more about them, perhaps we can overcome them. That alone would be a holiday gift worth
giving.
And then of course, we capped the week off with a humorous take on human factors applied to Thanksgiving dinner, backyard sports, and
driving home. But of course because
safety is the outcome, it is not just funny, it is also important.
