Bugs Become Features

Simon Harper

Academic blog and research notes

TL;DR

I’m a researcher professor working at the University of Manchester in the Department of Computer Science. I’ve been working in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D/T1DM) technology since 2018, specifically focusing on glucose and carbohydrate dosing (I’m leaving insulin dosing to the large corporations) and in-silico simulation as applied to the real world. The technology focuses on behavioural (digital) phenotyping assuming that we are habitual (or at least repetitive) and that there is a transitive relationship between blood glucose and behaviour.

All of my work is focused on trying to move research to technology in people’s hands as fast as possible which is why I have the Melontech start-up for research prototypes, and an independent side project.

Before my work in T1DM I spent 25 years in accessibility research specifically around profound blindness and the World Wide Web, with some forays into Parkinson’s Disease, Healthcare, and Visual Attention.

You can find out more about my Type 1 Diabetes and Web Accessibility work, including my Friday Night Experiments, or more about me, and what biases I have.