Altringer Eagle Lab

The lab studies how people learn to perceive, make, and judge — how a cook learns to taste, a designer learns to see, a team learns to notice what it is missing — and how to measure that learning honestly: pre-registered where it counts, published whatever the answer.

Its programs are the bodies of work on this site: the flavor-learning studies behind Flavor Fluency and its notation system; the Problem Genome; the design-education studies; and the Design at Dartmouth Residency — Designers in Residence who began in March 2026 as Natural Artificial Labs fellows — bringing practitioners, researchers, and designers together across perception, ecology, and intelligence.

The lab is small by design — one professor, a few projects at a time — and it sits inside Design at Dartmouth, whose research arm houses faculty labs and initiatives that come and go.