The Validation
HALO defines a staged, pre-registered validation program — from bench testing through longitudinal and application studies — governed by established human-subjects ethics, transparent statistics, and explicit threats-to-validity. Evidence is generated, not assumed.
Evidence as philosophy
HALO treats proof as a product. Claims only advance when the data earns them.
A five-phase validation roadmap
HALO is validated in steps: prove the hardware, then feasibility, then accuracy, then reliability over time, then real-world impact.
Controlled experimental conditions
Volunteers complete tasks like rest, focus, and mental math while HALO and reference instruments record together.
Transparent statistics
HALO commits in advance to how it will measure success, so results can't be cherry-picked.
Honest threats to validity
HALO names its risks up front: false positives, overfitting, user variability, and expectation effects.
Even proven, should it be built? That's a question of ethics.
Validation is staged, pre-registered, and ethics-governed.
Six standardized conditions are checked against multiple ground-truth sources.
Threats to validity are confronted openly with concrete controls.