Director, U.S. Office of Scientific Research & Development
Vice President and Dean
School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – User Interface Design, The Technical University of Denmark
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES
He is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Until 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. N/A
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Nielsen, J. (2000) Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing.
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The Usability Engineering Life Cycle, Nielsen, J. IEEE Computer, 25 (3). 1992. 12-22
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Nielsen, J. and J. M. Faber (1996). "Improving system usability through parallel design." Computer 29(2): 29-35.
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Donald A. Norman
Co-Founder & principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Professor, Depts. of Computer Science & Psychology, Northwestern University.
Professor emeritus, Cognitive Science, University of California - San Diego.
Trustee, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Mathematical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1962.
MS – Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1959.
BS – Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The human-centered design process; physical objects with embedded computation and telecommunication.
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KEY PUBLICATIONS -
Norman, D. A. and Draper, S. (1986) User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Norman, D.A. (1990) The design of everyday things. New York: Doubleday.
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Ben Shneiderman
Professor, Department of Computer Science,
The University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
Member, Institute for Systems Research
Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Founding Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1973
MS – Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1972
BS – Mathematics/Physics, City College of New York, 1968
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human-computer interaction and user interface design.
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KEY PUBLICATIONS -
Shneiderman, B. (1983). "Direct Manipulation - a Step Beyond Programming-Languages." Computer 16(8): 57-69.
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Shneiderman, B. (1987). Designing the User Interface: Strategies of Effective Human-Computer Interaction (3rd ed.). Pearson Addison Wesley.
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Shneiderman, B. (1980). Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems. Little, Brown and Co.
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