CHI 2008 Recap
Lynn Cherny, Jen McGinn, Lisa Neal & Chauncey Wilson
Abstract
Members of BostonCHI who attended the international CHI 2008 conference in Florence, Italy in April shared with us some of their experiences, photos, stories & favorite papers. The theme of this year's conference was "art.science.balance".
Presenter Bios
Lynn Cherny is a user experience design consultant with 10 years industry and research experience in interface design, customer research, and usability. Lynn has worked at Autodesk, The Mathworks, Adobe Systems (Seattle & San Jose), Axance.com (Paris), TiVo (Alviso, CA), & Excite (later Excite@Home) (Redwood City, CA). She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Linguistics; an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in Computer Speech and Language Processing; and a B.A. from University of Maryland in Linguistics. Her blogs and other info can be found at ghostweather.com.
Jen McGinn is a Senior User Experience Engineer in the Software Experience Design (xDesign) group at Sun Microsystems, in Burlington, MA. She has written branded interaction guidelines for installation, developed personas for Sun Learning Services, and simplified the user experience with the Java Enterprise System. Jen has worked for Sun for over 12 years in user experience, technical training, and technical writing. Before joining Sun, Jen led other lives as a software developer and system administration consultant. She holds a BS in Information Systems from UMBC and an MS in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley.
Lisa Neal is Editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine and Adjunct Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine where she teaches a course on Online Consumer Health. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Lisa blogs about health and education at LisaNeal.com.
Chauncey Wilson is on the faculty of the Information Design program at Bentley College, and has spent more than 20 years as an engineering psychologist, user interface designer, usability engineer, and product development manager. His academic background includes a physics degree and graduate training in social psychology, human factors engineering, and statistics. His consulting clients have included Microsoft, FEDEX, Lotus, Reuters, and 3COM. He is past president of the Northern New England chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the STC Usability SIG, and member of the Usability Professionals' Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the ACM SIGCHI. He co-wrote The Usability Engineering Framework for Product Design and Evaluation in the handbook of HCI and has presented on the psychology of victimization, research ethics, cyberlaw, usability methods, web design, and documentation usability.
Chauncey is also the co-chair of the Usability and User Experience track for CHI 2009 in Boston.