List of Speakers at D4M 2009
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[edit] Paul Atchley
Panel: Phone Use While Driving
Paul's early work – for the US Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate Crew Station Research and Development Facility at NASA-Ames – examined simulator sickness and how visual abilities interact with the perception of self-motion. Since then, he has conducted research on issues related to perceiving motion, especially for dynamic tasks such as control of locomotion and driving. Current research focuses on the interaction of attention and perception. He is now particularly interested in how these two aspects of cognition are influenced by aging, smoking and the performance of dual-tasks such as conversing and driving.
[edit] Barbara Ballard
Workshop: Gesture Design for (and with) Mobiles Topic: A Foolish Consistency Discussion: How to Make a Sticky App
Barbara is founder and President of Little Springs Design, a full service design agency providing the heads of marketing, product, and user experience the help to optimally engage with their clients over mobile phones. She has been working on mobile services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998. Barbara contends that mobile user experience goes beyond simply designing for the small screen, as the mobile is both more and less than the PC. She has recently published "Designing the Mobile User Experience" to help user experience professionals make the transition to mobile.
[edit] Richard Branham
Topic: IXD at KU
Richard has had parallel careers over the past forty plus years, in both academia and professional design consulting worldwide. He was a pioneer in the areas of design systems, design planning, and human-centered design on large scale wayfinding (Sears Tower) and branding projects (Ford, Target); and small scale wayfinding-navigation for information appliances (Tatung, Taiwan). He has published, lectured and consulted in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He is currently working in the areas of socio-cultural and situated areas of human factors, user experience, and interaction design strategies, methods and techniques. He was recently visiting professor of interaction design in Taipei. Richard is currently interested in the way people use mobile devices to create meaning in their lives, not on the design of artifacts themselves.
[edit] Judy Breck
Topic: The Long Tail of Mobile Learning
Judy is a blogger, who writes about learning at GoldenSwamp.com, about general connective topics on Howard Rheingold's SmartMobs.com, and coordinates the weekly Carnival of the Mobilists blogging round-up. She has written 5 books on learning and the internet. From 1997-2001 Judy headed content for the largest open collection online of study subjects, homeworkcentral.com. She will talk about how network effects such as the long tail shape mobile knowledge content, benefits of separating pedagogy and subject content in mobile material, and the empowerment of students by the mobile device that is blind to gender and ethnicity.
[edit] Christina Brodbeck
Topic: Case Study - YouTube Mobile
Christina A. Brodbeck is the lead UI Designer for YouTube Mobile, and is responsible for creating an interface that brings YouTube videos to cell phones. Joining in 2005, she was YouTube's first UI Designer, and has helped to create many of YouTube's most prominent features. Prior to joining YouTube, Christina worked at MRL Ventures, NASA Ames Research Center, and Keynote Systems. She holds a Master's Degree in Instructional Technologies from San Francisco State University, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[edit] Scott Campbell
Topic: Civic Life in 'Mobilized' Society: Considerations for Theory, Research, and Design
Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunications in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Campbell's research explores the social implications of new media, with an emphasis on mobile telephony. His current projects examine how mobile communication patterns are linked to both the private and public spheres of social life, such as social networking and civic engagement. Several of these projects use a comparative approach to situate the role of mobile communication technology in the larger media landscape.
[edit] Madhava Enros
Topic: Fennec Case Study
Madhava is the User-Experience lead for Fennec, Mozilla's project to create a version of Firefox for mobile devices. Before focusing on mobile in 2008, Madhava spent 9 years doing interaction and UI design for Mozilla (Firefox 3), DataMirror, and IBM. He'll present a case study of how, in Fennec, Firefox is being redesigned for mobile use while still keeping that which makes it popular on the desktop.
[edit] James Haliburton
Topic: The Real User Value of Astonishing 3D UIs
James Haliburton is the Concept Lead and Head of Innovation at TAT in Malmö Sweden, where he is part of the team which makes astonishing UIs possible for mobile devices. Presently James is delivering inspirational seminars to mobile operators and manufactures around the globe discussing strategies on how to best make meaningful experiences out of emerging technologies for our mobile world.
[edit] David Heinsohn
Panel: Phone Use While Driving
[edit] Steven Hoober
Workshop: Designing & Drawing Mobile Interactions Topic: Mobile Website Redesign After-Action Report
Steven is a Senior Interaction Designer with leading mobile design agency Little Springs Design. He has led projects on security, account management, content distribution, and communications services for numerous products, from construction supplies to hospital recordkeeping. Before coming to Little Springs, Steven spent eight years at US mobile operator Sprint.
[edit] Bob Miller
Panel: Phone Use While Driving
Bob Miller is Director of User Experience at VML. Bob ensures the customer is central to the widest range of communication solutions. A humanist and technologist, Bob brings a broad understanding of the capabilities and limitations of users. Previously, Bob was a Senior Consultant for Oracle and worked as an independent researcher for Radar Communications, where he assisted the agency in its work for Starbucks. For nearly a decade, Bob helped Sprint Nextel design and improve a wide variety of cellular services; he was a pioneer for the wireless web. He is a co-inventor on 20 domestic and international patents related to product features and user interaction.
[edit] Nader Nejat
Topic: Flash for Mobile Design
Nader Nejat, as founder and CEO of Omega Mobile, has an all-consuming passion for mobile multimedia. It drives his interests as a lecturer, teacher, mobile multimedia developer and entrepreneur. He thrives on seeing people go beyond the passive consumption of mobile media to engage and play, and in turn, create it themselves. His career has been dedicated to working in entertainment, advertising, technology, and marketing for a wide variety of companies such as: Adobe, Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft, Motorola, MTV, NBC, Qualcomm, Sony, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, & Virgin Mobile.
[edit] Jon Ochenas
Topic: Bringing It All Together: One Click Case Study
Jon is an interaction designer currently serving as the team lead for One Click, Sprint's new feature phone user interface. He focuses on designing for the constrained UI's imposed by mobile, automotive and living room applications and has a wealth of experience within those domains. He has previously worked as an Industrial Designer for Yahoo!. When not at work he can be found in his workshop, making things.
[edit] France Rupert
francerupert@gmail.com | @surferroop
Topic: Semantics & the Mobile Web
France runs a User Experience Design consultancy based in the Kansas City area - focusing on Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design, and Web Standards. He spent 9 years at Sprint's User Experience Design organization, specializing in Interaction Design and Web Standards-based development. In 2004, he led the redesign efforts for a CSS-based redesign of sprintpcs.com – one of the first Fortune 100 companies to do so.
[edit] Noah Richardson
Topic: Mobile Voice UI Design
As the manager of Tellme's Mobile User Experience group, Noah Richardson's chief responsibility is fostering a stable space of innovation for the UX team. Since joining Tellme in 2003, Noah has advanced human-centered design for the company's technology solutions. Noah's experience ranges from his work with Fortune 500 enterprise clients on voice systems to delivering mobile search applications for the consumer market.
[edit] Shilpa Shah
Topic: Thanks for the email, chat, post, wave, poke and tweet. Now can we grab a real drink?
Shilpa brings over 8 years of design expertise leading teams and driving innovative interface solutions for a variety of mobile, web, and software UI initiatives. Shilpa is an Associate Director of Interaction Design at Punchcut, a leading mobile user interface strategy and design company. She has designed user interfaces for select top-tier network operators and consumer device manufacturers on a breadth of convergent and mobile user experience initiatives.
[edit] Jeff Sonstein
Rochester Institute of Technology
Topic: Best Practices in Mobile Web Applications
Working with telecommunications since serving in the Army in the late 1960s, with computers since returning to college in the early 1970s, and with local and wide-area networks since the early 1980s, Jeff has been responsible for creating and maintaining networks ranging in size from 15-seat LANs to a WAN with hundreds of seats; he created one of the first 2500 Web sites in the world and one of the world's first half-dozen VRML sites. In 2003 I established the Center for the Handheld Web at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a contributor to the W3C and other standards organizations.
