User Experience Research

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Kimiko Ryokai

Kimiko Ryokai

Associate Professor
Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces

Recent Publications

User Experience Research news

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Elizabeth Goodman Revises Classic Handbook of User Experience Research
Elizabeth Goodman, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information, first became interested in user experience research while taking a graduate course at NYU. Now she is the author of the new edition of the classic handbook of user experience research “Observing the User Experience.”
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The Challenges of Designing Mobile User Experiences
Suzanne Ginsburg will be teaching the new course “Designing Mobile Experiences” at the School of Information in Fall 2012. Ginsburg talks about her upcoming course and the biggest challenges when designing for mobile devices.
Jen King
Doctoral Student Jen King Is Persuasive as an Expert Witness
(photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnealepics/5809840459/">Lisa Neale</a>)
Computerized pen helps students with disabilities in unexpected ways
Four I School students evaluated a pilot test by the UC Berkeley Disabled Students Program, providing Livescribe computerized pens to students with learning disabilities. They were hoping the pen would lessen the reliance on hired notetakers — but their research showed that it’s more complicated than that.
Professor Nancy Van House
Nancy Van House Joins Pioneering New Disability Research Initiative

Ten faculty members from eight campus units will collaborate on research related to disability, with topics including how people define and respond to disability and the critical areas of technology, education, and employment. The university announced this sweeping new disability research initiative earlier this month.