Dave McColgin

Current

• User Researcher / Designer at Artefact

Past

• Research Scientist / HCI Specialist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• NeuroLab Webmaster at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Research Assistant, Brain & Vision Lab at University of Rochester

• Ergonomist at Eastman Kodak

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• University of Rochester

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Industry

Design

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Dave McColgin’s Summary

Taking ideas from user research through design and evaluation is my vocation. To that end, I've worked on projects in a variety of technology domains, including analysis environments, information visualization, social networking, mobile devices, touch interaction, medical devices, question-answering, eLearning interactions, and speech translator hardware.

I have lifecycle qualifications from formative research to design process, evaluation, and project management of interdisciplinary teams.

I've published at conferences for information retrieval, weblogs and social media, and more.

Dave McColgin’s Specialties:

User and product research, interaction design, project management, wireframing/information architecture, low- and high-fidelity prototyping, evaluation, and Flash development.

Dave McColgin’s Experience

• User Researcher / Designer

  Artefact

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Research Scientist / HCI Specialist

  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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

  July 2005 — June 2008 (3 years )

  Manage teams developing innovative visual analytics prototypes and products. Design interactions for web, software, and hardware in national security and other domains. Lead designer / user advocate for flagship visualization product. Publish research results and started a research paper reading group. Design and develop award-winning eLearning.

• NeuroLab Webmaster

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  Built consensus with 7 independent PhD stakeholders to develop new Web sites for their own research, combined laboratory, NSF IGERT fellowship, and more. Development included persona development, wireframes, all content, Dreamweaver templates, XHTML and CSS to 508 standards.

• Research Assistant, Brain & Vision Lab

  University of Rochester

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  September 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  Designed, programmed, ran, and analyzed my own and others' human subjects experiments in visual attention. The lab studies neural plasticity, including both training effects and congenital conditions. http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/daphne/

• Ergonomist

  Eastman Kodak

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EK; Consumer Goods industry)

  June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)

  As an intern, performed ergonomic office evaluations for all of Kodak Rochester, including technology solutions and work practices. Ran the ergonomic chair and equipment library for severe interventions.

Dave McColgin’s Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  2003 — 2005

• University of Rochester

  BA , Brain & Cognitive Science , 1999 — 2003

Additional Information

Dave McColgin’s Websites:

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Dave McColgin’s Interests:

Information visualization, user-centered design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, e-training, new technology

Dave McColgin’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

•    Computing Alumni Organization, Georgia Tech
•    Golden Key International Honour Society
•    Visual Analytics
•    HCI @ Georgia Tech
•    Puget Sound SIGCHI
•    Artefact Research

Dave McColgin’s Honors:

Finalist in IDEA Business Week awards, Northwest Academic Computing Consortium's Joanne R Hugi Award for Software Excellence, software copyrights, Golden Key, National Honor Society, Eagle Scout

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