A few quick notes on the role that mode confusion may have played in the recent crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX-8 aircraft.

A quick example regarding the importance of affordances and the gulf of execution in design. Examples can be found in all sorts of places.

For my dissertation, I'm arguing that we should be able to formally model and analyze human mental models to find unanticipated problems in computer security. But what does that mean and why does it matter?

Depending on user needs, an actual "password book" might not be a bad idea. It's certainly better than rampant password reuse.

Within human factors engineering, one of the topics I'm most interested in is how human error can contribute to system failure. With news of JAXA's loss of their just-launched x-ray satellite, did human error contribute to this complex system failure as well?

As you can read on my "About" page, I'm a graduate student studying Human Factors (HF) engineering. What does that mean? Or, more importantly, what does and does not fall under the purview of my interests?