A Shared Object to Gather Around

Research tooling in applied human factors has always been scarce, expensive, or inaccessible. On building a purpose-made annotation instrument, and discovering the real unlock was not the numbers but a shared object the team could reason around.

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A Shared Object to Gather Around
Research tooling in applied human factors has always been scarce, expensive, or inaccessible. On building a purpose-made annotation instrument, and discovering the real unlock was not the numbers but a shared object the team could reason around.
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