Amy Baxter

Not even activities or educational level or any of those things, although they helped.

But what made much more of a difference was the why of the people.

So the thing you're referring to, my first grant was to make a scale for nausea.

And I had the idea sitting at my desk.

I'd been working with pain for so long.

And so I had all of these pain scales and which pain scale has better psychometrics and is valid.

And I thought, you know, it would be great as if we had a scale for barfing.

And then the last...

face could be this blowing chunks face.

And I thought that, so that made me chuckle.

And so then I thought, you know, actually it's worse for many people to be ill nauseated than it is to feel pain.

So I, I had my brother who's a computer programmer, um,

make a Python program, and we had Luke Conrad, who's a cartoonist, draw a whole bunch of different faces that represented the six basic... Ekman calls them the six discussed... Six universal faces, or six universal emotions.

So we represented... And I've read all this stuff about nausea on spacecrafts.

Anyway, and so we figured out which parts of a face on a cartoon made...

someone feel like that person had nausea?

You know, was it sweat coming out?

Was it a trembling lip?

Was it feeling dizzy?

What was it?