Columns
by Carol Righi, Ph.D.
•Programmers are People, Too:
Applying User-Centered Design to Middleware
•Risky Business:
Managing Uncertainty in Software Development
•Measuring the Value of Usability Engineering
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Carol Righi
Carol
Righi is president of Righi
Interface Engineering, Inc. She has worked in the area of human-computer
interaction since 1984, and currently specializes in interaction design,
usability testing, and training. Dr. Righi has designed user interfaces
for the World Wide Web, and for desktop, kiosk, and mainframe applications.
She has planned and conducted extensive data gathering activities, has
developed many educational offerings, and has trained hundreds of students,
including numerous multidisciplinary design teams. Dr. Righi has written
extensively in the area of human-computer interaction, usability, and
UCD, and has presented at numerous professional meetings worldwide. She
is a co-author of "User-Centered
Design: An Integrated Approach." She is a member of the Usability
Professional's Association; SIGCHI, the human-factors special interest
group of the Association for Computing Machinery; and the Usability
Consortium. She serves on the advisory council for a popular user-centered
design discussion group. Dr. Righi's past positions have included consultant
for the IBM Usability Engineering consulting group; manager of the usability
evaluation department of IBM's Personal Software Products division; manager
of academic user services at Teachers College, Columbia University; and
guest lecturer in research methods at the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel, among others.
Dr. Righi's most recent activities have included the following:
- Web site design for the Usability Professionals' Association (forthcoming)
- Intranet interaction design, curriculum architecture, course development, and training for IBM
- Tutorial and web interaction design for a leading standardized test developer
- Multimedia kiosk design for a major American automobile manufacturer
- Numerous web site evaluations for several Fortune 100 companies
Dr. Righi received her undergraduate degree in psychology in 1981 and her Ph.D. in school/educational psychology in 1988, both from Fordham University in New York City. Her concentration in graduate school was in computer applications to education.
Carol Righi, Ph.D
Righi Interface Engineering, Inc.
1005 Windwood Street
Suite 101
Kingston, TN 37763
Email: carol@righiinterface.com
Web: http://www.righiinterface.com
Voice: +1.865.717.0045
