Aaron Powers

Current

• User Experience Designer at iRobot Corp

Past

• Senior Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University
• Founder at ReserveSport, LLC
• HCI Consultant at PanGo Networks

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Websites

• My Website

Aaron Powers’s Summary

Aaron Powers’s Specialties:

human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, user experience

Aaron Powers’s Experience

• User Experience Designer

  iRobot Corp

  (Public Company; IRBT; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

• Senior Research Associate

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 1 month)

  I was the Lab Technical Director for the Project on People and Robots doing Human-Robot Interaction research (http://www.aaronpowers.com/projectonpeopleandrobots). I also did a lot of research with web surveys and built a very flexible web survey system (http://www.aaronpowers.com/websurveytoolbox).

• Founder

  ReserveSport, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Started a company based off an undergraduate project for making court reservations online. Did HCI, programming, business management, and market research. Due to a small market, the company has retired to open source. With three current sites, the service has been used by more than 4500 users making more than 70,000 reservations.

• HCI Consultant

  PanGo Networks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

Aaron Powers’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  MS , Human-Computer Interaction , 2001 — 2003

• Carnegie Mellon University

  1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Aaron Powers’s Websites:

• My Website

Aaron Powers’s Interests:

human-robot interaction, usability, user experience, human-computer interaction, human factors, robotics, anthropology, ethnography

Aaron Powers’s Groups:

ACM, Boston CHI, UPA, HRI & RO-MAN

•    Carnegie Mellon Alumni
•    Alpha Phi Omega Networking
•    User Experience

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