Usability and Software Architecture

Bonnie E. John - Co-Principal Investigator

Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
1-412-268-7182
bej@cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/

Bonnie John is an engineer (B.Engr., The Cooper Union, 1977; M. Engr. Stanford, 1978) and cognitive psychologist (M.S. Carnegie Mellon, 1984; Ph. D. Carnegie Mellon, 1988) who has worked both in industry (Bell Laboratories, 1977-1983) and academe (Carnegie Mellon University, 1988-present). She is an Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Director of the Masters Program in HCI. Her research includes human performance modeling, usability evaluation methods, and the relationship between usability and software architecture. She consults for many industrial and government organizations.

Len Bass - Co-Principal Investigator

Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
1-412-268-6763
ljb@sei.cmu.edu
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/ljb/

Len Bass is an expert in software architecture & architecture design methods. Author of six books including two textbooks on software architecture & UI development, Len consults on large-scale software projects in his role as Senior MTS on the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Initiative at the Software Engineering Institute. His research area is the achievement of various software quality attributes through software architecture and he is the developer of software architecture analysis and design methods. Len is also the past chair of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group on User Interface Engineering.

Elspeth Golden - PhD Student / Researcher

Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
1-412-268-1208
egolden@cmu.edu
http://www.elspethgolden.com/

Elsa Golden is a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She holds a B.A. in History (U.C. Santa Barbara, 1987), and has ten years of industry experience in commercial software development. Her research interests lie in the confluence between human-computer interaction and software engineering. In particular, she is interested in the application of usability concerns and methods to software development processes and products. Other areas of interest include music technologies, cultural linguistics, and cross-disciplinary methodological synthesis.

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