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Aaron Powers

aaronpowers_200.jpgAaron’s areas of specific expertise are: (1) human-robot interaction (2) building experiments and studies, especially complex web-based ones, and, more broadly, (3) human-computer interaction & user experience evaluation, design, & development.

Aaron has worked on human-computer interaction projects for a number of small businesses, research projects, and startup companies. Aaron led development of several software packages and web applications that have had tens of thousands of users, including a state of the art web survey package, the Web Survey Toolbox, which is used for online research around the world. Until August 2006, I was a Senior Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University, where I’ve published several papers about Human-Robot Interaction, with several more in the works.

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  1. adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » UX Week 2008 - New speakers, including Bruce Sterling Says:

    […] the information architect for TheDailyShow.com Audrey Chen, and human-robot interaction designer Aaron Powers. Peter Samis, curator at SFMOMA, will discuss the design of the whole visitor experience for their […]

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