Dr Susan Dray
Speaker's BiographySusan M. Dray, PhD, CUXP, is a recognized leader in usability, human factors, and human-computer interaction. Susan has a PhD from UCLA, and a BA from Mills College, both in Psychology, and is a Board Certified User Experience Professional (CUXP).
She contributed to the founding of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). She was elected a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 1994. She is the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Service Award from SIGCHI, and was named a Distinguished Engineer by ACM in 2008. She is currently the Director of Publications on the Board of Directors of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA).
Since 1993, as President of Dray & Associates, Inc., she has provided contextual and ethnographic user research, usability evaluation, and interface design consultation for a wide range of products, systems and applications. She has worked in many countries around the world and is widely known for her expertise in international user studies. Her many clients include firms such as AT&T, Cargill, eBay, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Ideo, Intel, Intuit, Medtronic, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, SAP, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Texas Instruments, Trane, and Xerox, to name but a few.
To: 12 Jun 2018, 2 p.m.
Location: Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea
Join us for the fourth in the series of the Founding the Foundry lectures. This is an informal lunchtime talk by Dr. Susan Dray, titled ‘The Computational Foundry – who we are and what we do’ on Tuesday 12th June, 1:00-2:00pm at The Studio in Taliesin Arts Centre, at Swansea University’s Singleton Campus.
This lecture is aimed at a general audience and open to anyone, and refreshments are provided.
For the ambitious and inspiring goals for the Computational Foundry to be met, the role of the human in technology design, use and impact is critical. As the Foundry is literally growing in front of our eyes and these goals are still fresh and inspiring, it seems fitting to remind ourselves of the important things that make us HCI/UX people, so that we can hold onto and amplify these going forward into this exciting collaborative space. This talk describes 5 things we do and 5 values we hold, and then demonstrates how the two intersect with examples from many years as a consultant.
Contact: Julia Harrison (Email: j.f.harrison@swansea.ac.uk)
Event created by: e.a.carpenter