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2026

Improving Emergency Response: A Qualitative Needs Assessment Involving People With Disabilities and First Responders

Gleaton, E., Farmer, S., & Baker, P. M. A. (2026). Improving Emergency Response: A Qualitative Needs Assessment Involving People With Disabilities and First Responders. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 68(6), 693-707. 

2025 

Exploring longitudinal affect on adoption of persuasive wearables in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Parcell, E., Erickson, J., Gleaton, E., Kim, D. E., & Fain, B. (2025). Exploring longitudinal affect on adoption of persuasive wearables in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. In Q. Gao, & J. Zhou (Eds.) Human aspects of IT for the aged population (pp.199-217)Springer. 

 

2024

Social Media Gerontology: Understanding Social Media Usage Among Older Adults. 

Gleaton, E., Parcell, E., Erickson, J., & Fain, B. (2024). Exploring longitudinal physiological monitoring: Insights from utilizing a commercial wearable device among older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 68th International Annual Meeting, 68(1). 

 

2023

The critical role of engineering in the rapid development of COVID-19 diagnostics: Lessons from the RADx Tech Test Verification Core

Manino, R., Nehl, E., Farmer, S., Peagler, A. F., Parsell, M., Claveria, V., Gottfried, D., Chen, H., Brand, O., and Lam, W. (2023). The Critical Role of Engineering Assessments in the Rapid Development of COVID-19 Diagnostics: Lessons from the RADx Tech Test Verification Core, Science Advances, 9(14), 1-9. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4962 

 

2022

Personas, the Pandemic, and Inclusive, Synthetic, Smart City Planning

Farmer, S., Bricout, J. C., Baker, P. M., & Solomon, J. (2022). Personas, the Pandemic, and Inclusive, Synthetic, Smart City Planning. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 11(1), 1-15. doi:10.4018/IJEPR.299545 

 

Pivoting an MCI Empowerment Program to Online Engagement

Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Kayci Vickers, Salimah LaForce, Sarah K. Farmer, Jeremy M. Johnson, Matthew Doiron, Aparna Ramesh, Walter Bradley Fain, Tamara Zubatiy, and Amy D. Rodriguez. 2022. Pivoting an MCI Empowerment Program to Online Engagement. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, GROUP, Article 32 (January 2022), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492851

 

Concordance of SARS-CoV-2 Results in Self-collected Nasal Swabs vs Swabs Collected by Health Care Workers in Children and Adolescents: 

Waggoner, J. J., Vos, M. B., Tyburski, E. A., Nguyen, P.-V., Ingersoll, J. M., Miller, C., Sullivan, J., Griffiths, M., Stone, C., Benoit, M., Benedit, L., Seitter, B., Jerris, R., Levy, J. M., Kraft, C. S., Farmer, S., Peagler, A., Wood, A., Westbrook, A. L., Morris, C. R., Sathian, U. N., Heetderks, W., Li, L., Roth, K., Barcus, M., Stenzel, T., Martin, G. S., and Lam, W. A. (2022). Concordance of SARS-CoV-2 Results in Self-collected Nasal Swabs vs Swabs Collected by Health Care Workers in Children and Adolescents. JAMA, 328(10), 935-940. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.14877

 

Don’t forget about human factors: Lessons learned from COVID-19 point-of-care testing

Farmer, S., Razin, V., Peagler, A. F., Strickler, S., Fain, W. B., Damhorst, G. L., Kempker, R. R., Pollock, N. R., Brand, O., Seitter, B., Heilman, S. S., Nehl, E. J., Levy, J. M., Gottfried, D. S., Martin, G. S., Greenleaf, M., Ku, D. N., Waggoner, J. J., Iffrig, E., Mannino, R. G., Wang, Y. F., Ortlund, E., Sullivan, J. Rebolledo, P. A., Clavería, V., Roback, J. D., Benoit, M., Stone, C., Esper, A., Frank, F., Lam, W. A. (2022). Don’t forget about human factors: Lessons learned from COVID-19 point-of-care testing. Cell Reports Methods 2(5). doi:10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100222.

 

2021

The RADx tech test verification core and the ACME POCT in the evaluation of COVID-19 testing devices: A model for progress and change. 

Nehl, E. J., Heilman, S. S., Ku, D., Gottfried, D. S., Farmer, S., Mannino, R., Tyburski, E., Sullivan, J., Suesssmith, A., Bassit, L., Figueroa, J., Wood, A., Leong, T., Rao, A., Rogers, B., Jerris, R., Park, S., Gonzalez, M. D., Frediani, J., Morris, C. R., Levy, J. M., Schoof, N., Mavigner, M., Roback, J. D., Herzegh, K., Saakadze, N., Ingersoll, J., Cheerdaral, N., Neish, A., Hanberry, B., Porter, C. C., Esper, A. M., Kempker, R. R., Rebolledo, P. A., McGuinnes, P. D., Balagadde, F., Gore, R., Koren, A., Pollock, N., Rogers, E. J., Simin, K., Hafer, N. S., Picard, M. A., Ghezzi, C. E., McManus, D. D., Buchholz, B. O., Rostad, C. A., Claveria, V., Ramachandra, T., Wang, Y. F., Washington, C., Stone, C., Griffiths, M., Schinazi, R., Chahroudi, A., Vos, M. B., Brand, O., Martin, G. S., Lam, W. A. (2021). The RADx tech test verification core and the ACME POCT in the evaluation of COVID-19 testing devices: A model for progress and change. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2, 142-151. doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2021.3070825. 

 

The need for new test verification and regulatory support for innovative diagnostics. 

Roback, J. D., Tyburski, E. A., Alter, D., Asakrah, S., Chahroudi, A., Esper, A., Farmer, S., Figueroa, J., Frediani, J. K., Gonzalez, M. D., Gottfried, D. S., Guarner, J., Gupta, N. A., Heilman, S. S., Hill, C. E., Jerris, R., Kempker, R. R., Ingersoll, J., Levy, J. M., Mavigner, M., Moreno, C. S., Morris, C. R., Nehl, E. J., Neish, A. S., Peker, D., Saakadze, N., Rebolledo, P. A., Rostad, C. A., Schoof, N., Suessmith, A., Sullivan, J., Wang, Y. F. W., Wood, A., Vos, M. B., Brand, O., Martin, G. S., Lam, W. A. (2021). The need for new test verification and regulatory support for innovative diagnostics. Nature Biotechnology, 39(9), 1060-1062. doi:10.1038/s41587-021-01047-7. 

 

Multidisciplinary assessment of the Abbott BinaxNOW SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care antigen test in the context of emerging viral variants and self-administration. 

Frediani, J. K., Levy, J. M., Rao, A., Bassit, L., Figueroa, J., Vos, M. B., Wood, A., Jerris, R., Leung-Pineda, V., Gonzalez, M. D., Rogers,B. B., Mavigner, M., Schinazi, R. F., Schoof, N., Waggoner, J. J., Kempker, R. R., Rebolledo, P. A., O’Neal, J. W., Stone, C., Chahroudi, A., Morris, C. R., Suessmith, A., Sullivan, J., Farmer, S., Foster, A., Roback, J. D., Ramachandra, T., Washington, C., Le, K., Cordero, M. C., Esper, A., Nehl, E. J., Wang, Y. F., Tyburski, E. A., Martin, G. S., Lam, W. A. (2021). Multidisciplinary assessment of the Abbott BinaxNOW SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care antigen test in the context of emerging viral variants and self-administration. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14604. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-94055-1 
 

2017

Medication Adherence Facilitators and Barriers for Older Adults with Disabilities

Fain, W. B., Farmer, S., Owens, S., Fausset, C., & Foster, A. (2017). MEDICATION ADHERENCE FACILITATORS AND BARRIERS FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES. Innovation in Aging, 1(Suppl 1), 14.

 

Addressing Medication Adherence Technology Needs in an Aging Population

Jessica Pater, Shane Owens, Sarah Farmer, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Brad Fain. 2017. Addressing medication adherence technology needs in an aging population. In Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 58–67. https://doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154872
 

2016

Designing Usable Voting Systems for Voters with Hidden Barriers: A Pilot Study

Harley, L., Kline, K., Bell, C., Baranak, A., Michelson, S., Farmer, S. & Fain, B. (2016). Designing Usable Voting Systems for Voters with Hidden Barriers: A Pilot Study, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 32(2), 103-118, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2015.1116759