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

Education

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

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Connections

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Kevin Arthur’s Summary

Kevin Arthur’s Specialties:

Human-computer interaction and user experience research, usability engineering, statistics and experiment design, programming (C++, Python and others).

Kevin Arthur’s Experience

• Usability Analyst

  Synaptics

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  September 2007 — Present (9 months)

  Usability research and analysis for touch interfaces.

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

Additional Information

Kevin Arthur’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Kevin Arthur’s Interests:

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

Kevin Arthur’s Groups:

ACM SIGCHI, SIGCAS, BayCHI, UPA, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

•    BayCHI member
•    UsabilityPro member
•    Human Computer Interaction (HCI) member

Kevin Arthur’s Contact Settings

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