I met an awesome woman yesterday and she is giving a brown
bag luncheon today in TSRB 132 – I ordered 10 extra lunches so any of you
can go over to hear her and lunch is free. Take a friend even!
Kelly Braun is a GT alum who went on to Duke to get her PhD
and works in HCI type stuff for eBay and PayPal. You can learn a lot from
her about the work environment, different jobs, etc. Here is more info –
hope to see you there (I’m going over after my class).
Kelly is currently the Senior Manager of
PayPal’s User Experience Research team. Kelly has been at eBay,
Inc. since 1999 and has managed User Experience Research, Usability, UI and
Content Management teams for the eBay Marketplace.
Kelly has been involved in the HCI field
for over 20 years as either a computer scientist or a cognitive
psychologist. Kelly holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and
a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Duke. She has also worked for
Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks and Oracle.
In 2005, Kelly participated in a panel at
CHI “Corporate Re-orgs: Poison or Catalyst to HCI”, and co-authored
papers at UPA “Visual Cluster Analysis and Fold Analysis: Methodologies
for Quantitatively Analyzing Participatory Design Data“ and HCII,
“Designing the e-commerce User Experience for
Kelly also contributed to the books,
“Understanding Your Users: A practical guide to user requirements”
by Courage & Baxter, 2004, and “Usability: The Site Speaks for
Itself” by Braun, Gadney, et al. 2003.
Kelly was the first woman editor-in-chief
of the Georgia Tech student newspaper, The
Technique.
Have a great meeting – sorry I must miss due to
class. I gave Laura my update on faculty responses to share with you.
Maureen
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Maureen Biggers
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Special Programs
College of Computing, Georgia Tech
404.894.3181 (office)
404.385.0965 (fax)