Using Synthetic Data to Drive Machine Learning
What is Machine Learning? Over the past few years, data scientists have been making remarkable breakthroughs in the field of machine learning, a process that allows humans to quite literally …
The Road to UX Hell…
Recently, I’ve begun to see articles and blog posts suggesting that UX, as a discipline, should be retired. Code and Theory CEO Dan Gardner, believes that UX has “moved from …
Selecting a Microcontroller
These days product design typically involves sensors, LEDs, displays, buttons or a touch screen, sound, data logging, and wireless connectivity. The lowest cost, lowest power, most flexible, and most compact …
Management System for a Pediatric Heart Pump: A Design Research Case Study
Carolynn Johnson, Daedalus Research Manager, recently presented Management System for a Pediatric Heart Pump: A Design Research Case Study at the 2013 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in …
Enlisting Engineers and Designers for Informative Research in a Short Amount of Time
The beauty and the curse of product development lie in the initial hurdle of design — the existence of a multitude of unknowns. Wading through this large pool of uncertainty …
The Meaning of Experience
My mom is barely old enough to remember a world without color television. As far as I remember, we’ve always had a computer in the house, and my younger brother …
My Product Is on TV!
There is always a flurry of emails at Daedalus when one of the products we helped design is spotted on TV or in a movie. For some reason, the excitement …