jnd: just noticeable difference

In the field of psychophysics, that branch of experimental psychology that studies sensation and perception, a jnd is the amount that something must be changed for the difference to be noticeable, defined to mean that the change is detectable half the time. My goal is to make a noticeable difference -- many jnds worth -- in human-centered technology.

I started my career as an experimental/mathematical psychologist in psychophysics, and my love of the exquisite sensitivity and dynamic range of hearing and seeing, as well as the power of human perception has stayed with me.

For the definition of jnd as used in psychophysics, see the Wikipedia definition.

Schedule
Updated April 19, 2019
I am declining travel requests not directly related to the University of California, San Diego Design Lab. (Not all trips are listed.)

May 10, 2019. Tsinghua University, Beijing
   International Advisory Board for the Department of Industrial Engineering

May 13-14: Tongji University, Shanghai
International Advisory Board for the College of Design & Innovation

May 14-16, 2019. Princeton University
Smart Driving Car Summit. (Organized by Prof. Alain Kornhauser, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

I cannot make this meeting, but work from the Design Lab on automated Vehicles will be presented by Colleen Emmenegger, Director of Mobility and Automation.

May 31, 2019. AAAS Workshop at UC San Diego

American Association for Arts and Sciences workshop, sponsored by the Design Lab: Design in the 21st Century

June 23-26, 2019. ACM Conferences Creativity & Cognition (C&C) and Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
A joint conference of the two organizations, co-sponsored by the  UC San Diego Design Lab. (Steven Dow, Design Lab faculty, is Co-Chair and Co-Associate Chair of the two conferences, respectively.)
 http://cc.acm.org/2019/ and https://dis2019.com/

See: Heckler, Taylor, Dow, Morris, Grant, Phatak, and Norman (2019). Exploring, Defining, & Advancing Community-Driven Design for Social Impact

October 8-11. 17th annual FiRe (Future in Review) Conference.
 The Lodge at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA