Kevin Arthur

Current

Usability Analyst at Synaptics

Past

R&D Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic
Senior Developer at Alien Skin Software
Senior Software Engineer at 3rdTech

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Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of British Columbia
University of Waterloo

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Industry

Computer Hardware

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Kevin Arthur’s Summary

Experienced usability professional with a strong background in HCI, computer science, and quantitative techniques. I'm interested in all aspects of user experience research and design, and am currently focused on touch interfaces, mobile interaction, and pointing devices.

Kevin Arthur’s Specialties:

Usability testing, heuristic/expert evaluation, human-computer interaction research, user research, statistics and experiment design, programming (C++, Javascript, Python and others).

Kevin Arthur’s Experience

Usability Analyst

Synaptics

(Public Company; SYNA; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Usability for touch and gestural interfaces. Conducting usability tests, expert reviews, and HCI research on touchscreen mobile and touchpad hardware and software.
R&D Engineer

Industrial Light & Magic

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

January 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Software engineering -- 2D graphics and image processing. Custom ILM software and plugins for Shake compositing system.
Senior Developer

Alien Skin Software

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

July 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 6 months)

Researched and developed digital image editing software for products including Image Doctor, Eye Candy, Xenofex.
Senior Software Engineer

3rdTech

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

May 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Developed software for HiBall 6-degree-of-freedom optical tracker and DeltaSphere 3D scene digitizer.

Kevin Arthur’s Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PhD , Computer Science , 1993 — 1999

Dissertation: Effects of Field of View on Performance with Head-Mounted Displays.
Advisor: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The University of British Columbia

M.Sc. , Computer Science , 1991 — 1993

Master's Thesis: 3D Task Performance using Head-Tracked Stereo Display.
Advisor: Kellogg S. Booth.
University of Waterloo

B.Math. , Computer Science , 1986 — 1991

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Kevin Arthur’s Interests:

Human-computer interaction (HCI), usability, user experience research, interaction design, computers and society, science and technology studies (STS), computer graphics.