Speakers

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Dennis Wixon

Dennis is presenting “The Challenge of Emotional Innovation” on the Main Stage.

Dennis Wixon joined Microsoft Surface Computing in February 2008. As the user research manager, Wixon leads a team responsible for directing, planning, executing, reporting and evangelizing the research which measures the usability, usefulness and desirability of Microsoft Surface. He believes his work on user interaction complements traditional market research because his team focuses specifically on the user’s experience with working hardware and software prototypes. According to Wixon, user research is an important aspect of understanding and measuring the user’s experience with Surface.

Wixon has worked at Microsoft Corp. for more than 10 years. Before working for Microsoft Surface Computing, he was the user research manager for Microsoft Game Studios, where he and his team played a pivotal role in the success of Microsoft’s popular games including the “Halo” franchise.

Before Microsoft, Wixon was a usability manager at Digital Equipment Corp., where he worked on and helped develop a number of important usability methods. A member of the human factors community for many years, Wixon also was one of the five founding members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Boston Chapter. Wixon holds a doctorate in social psychology from Clark University, and he has written more than 25 articles, columns and talks on human-computer interaction (HCI) methods.

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