In Memoriam - Joyce Cameron

Joyce Cameron, DMA, MA, died on Dec. 15 in Kettering, Ohio. Joyce had a 25+ year career teaching music-related subjects at Centenary College of Louisiana and Wright State University before deciding to pursue a career in Human Factors. She earned a Master’s in Human Factors and Experimental Psychology from the University of Dayton. Her pedagogical training and emphasis on systems was reflected in her thesis on reducing office workstation injuries.

During her career in Human Factors, she worked for the University of Dayton Research Institute and Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the Human Systems Information Analysis Center (HSIAC). She located information, analyzed, and synthesized information, and conducted studies when relevant information was not otherwise available for clients in the Department of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, FAA, NASA, industry, and academia. She and Bill Moroney collaborated on multiple questionnaire design tutorials since 1994. In 2018, they coauthored the book: Questionnaire Design: How to Ask the Right Questions of the Right People at the Right Time to Get the Information You Need (Users' Guides to Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods).

As a cancer survivor, she applied her professional skills in the Noble Circle, a Cancer Survivors group, and also became engaged with somatic movement practices, and particularly in practicing and studying the Anat Baniel Method®-NeuroMovement®, a non-linear dynamical systems approach to improving brain differentiation through lessons that systematically expand skill and subtlety in the human relationship to gravity. This diverse clientele ranges from those with severe brain damage or stroke to Olympic athletes and world-class musicians.  At the time of her death, she and her neurologist colleague Martha Herbert were systematizing the training curriculum to greatly expand the breadth of impact of this work and provide a more highly structured foundation for researching its mechanisms.  Her emphasis was always on using a pedagogically sophisticated systems approach to achieve the greatest learning and greatest good.

A memorial service is planned for late January. There will be a video feed for those who cannot attend in person. For information, email Hillary Wagner at joycecameronservice@aol.com.