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Rebecca Blood is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on weblogs. Her book, The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog, called "the Strunk & White of blogging books", was chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 best books on digital culture for 2002. It has been translated into 4 languages.

Her work has been used in university courses around the world. She has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, the BBC, and on National Public Radio; she was recently profiled by Time magazine.

In 2003 she presented a keynote address in Vienna at Blogtalk, the world's first weblog conference. She has maintained her own weblog, Rebecca's Pocket, since April 1999. She lives in San Francisco.

Besides her book, Ms. Blood has written a number of critically important essays on the theory and practice of weblogs. She has been invited to write for the prestigious academic journals the Nieman Reports and Communications of the ACM. Ms. Blood serves on the Steering Committee for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. She appeared at the 2003 PlaNetworks, a conference on sustainability, and organized a panel on Wikis at South by Southwest in 2004. In 2003, the UK's Web User named Ms. Blood one of the Web's "Hot Faces" (right between Beck and Bowie), and Sweden's Internet World ranked her as one of the world's Top Ten Bloggers. She was once Goth Babe of the Week.

著作

『ウェブログ・ハンドブック　ブログの作成と運用に関する実践的なアドバイス』

出版：毎日コミュニケーションズ 2003.12.24
ISBN:483991107X

『The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog』

出版：Perseus Books Group 2002.7.2
ISBN:073820756X

関連サイト

• http://www.rebeccablood.net/ (個人サイト)

連絡先

Career

Masaaki Kurosu is a professor at the R&D Department of National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) of MEXT, the ministry of education, since September of 2001. Before coming to NIME, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Information of Shizuoka University from April of 1994 where he taught the HCI and the usability engineering. Until then, he was working for Hitachi Ltd. at the Design Center from 1988 to 1994 and at the Central Research Laboratory from 1978 to 1988. He was engaged in the methodological development of interaction design, the LISP programming system, and the Japanese word processor.

He studied the experimental psychology and the psychological measurement at the doctoral course and the master course of graduate school of Waseda University. He graduated Waseda University in 1971.

His current interest is the user engineering in which he first engaged in the development of several evaluation techniques including the Dual Task Model, the sHEM, the NEM and proposed the concept of apparent usability.

He is now interested in the study of context of use in terms of field-work based methods and is currently proposing the micro-scenario method. He is also interested in the social learning system especially the career education and in the cultural aspect of HCI.

He is an (co-)author of 23 books, wrote about 30 articles and gave presentations of more than 200. He is a member of ACM SIGCHI, SIGDOC, UPA, HFES, IEEE Computer Society, IPSJ, HIS, JES, JSD, JPA, and JCSS. He served as a conference chair for APCHI'98 and INTERACT'01. He is a member of TC159/SC4/WG6 and IFIP/TC13 and is a board member of IWIPS.

著作

『ペーパープロトタイピング 最適なユーザインタフェースを効率よくデザインする』（監訳）

出版：オーム社 2004/06
ISBN:4274065669

『ユーザビリティテスティング』（編著）

出版：共立出版 2003/05
ISBN:4320071549

『ユーザ工学入門　使い勝手を考える・ISO13407への具体的アプローチ』（共著）

出版：共立出版 1999/09
ISBN:4320071468

関連サイト

• Masaaki Kurosu Home Page (個人サイト)

Career

Beth Loring, Director of the Center, has nearly twenty years of experience consulting on product design and usability. She has expertise in the areas of user needs assessment, user interface design, usability evaluation methods, and ergonomics. She has designed and conducted usability tests of consumer electronics, web sites, software and medical devices. Beth has also been a visiting faculty member in Bentley’s Information Design and Corporate Communications department since 2001.

Before joining Bentley, Beth was a Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and before that she spent five years as the human factors team leader at IDEO Product Development in Boston. In both positions, Beth worked on the design and evaluation of a wide array of products, including client-server software, insulin injectors, two-way radios, hospital communications systems, digital cameras, vehicle navigation systems, microchip manufacturing systems, and home networked technologies. She is also familiar with the FDA and AAMI human factors standards for medical products, and has presented tutorials on FDA compliance.

Beth’s web experience includes usability testing and expert reviews of a wide variety of sites in the banking, e-commerce, mortgage, educational, and business-to-business industries.

Beth holds an M.S. in Engineering Design from Tufts University and is a Certified Human Factors Professional. She has published more than fifteen papers on usability and is coauthor of a case study in “Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Requirements” (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005). She has received design awards from IDEA/Business Week and ID Magazine. Beth is past chair of both the New England Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Greater Boston SIGCHI.

Partial Client List:

Amtrak, Arnold Worldwide, Baxter Healthcare, Bose, Cabot, Cisco, Electrolux, Eli Lily, Fannie Mae, Hewlett Packard, IDEXX, Kodak, Liberty Mutual, Lifeline, MassMutual, McKesson, Microsoft, Monster, Motorola, National Swimming Pool Foundation, Product Genesis, Polaroid, Ricoh, Sarns Medical, Samsung Electronics, SpaceTec, Staples, Sunbeam, Symantec, Teradyne, US Air Force, US FDA, and Volkswagen.

Career

Dr. Gribbons is Director of the Human Factors and Information Design programs at Bentley, where he teaches courses in human factors and information design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Information Design programs at Bentley are among the largest and most respected programs of this type in the country. In 2002, Dr. Gribbons was awarded the position of Distinguished Professor of Human Factors in recognition of his contributions to the college and the profession.

In 1999, Dr. Gribbons founded the Design and Usability Center at Bentley, and continues to serve in a senior consulting role. Before founding the Center, Dr. Gribbons was president of a human factors consulting group specializing in information, interaction, and interface design. For over twenty years, he has provided testing services, expert reviews, and seminars to a diverse range of corporate clients around the world in the software, hardware, and Internet communities. Dr. Gribbons continues to deliver customized seminars on the topics of human factors, testing, field-based analysis, localization, user experience, and interface design.

Dr. Gribbons received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and a member of the Technical Communication Editorial Board. He is also a member of the IEEE, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Usability Professional Association, and the ACM SIGCHI. As an expert in the field of product usability and information design he has appeared on and been quoted in local and national media such as the Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, USA Today, the Associated Press, The Washington Times, East Bay Business Times, ABC 20-20, Business 2.0, a nationally syndicated radio show (A Touch of Grey), and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Partial Client List:

AC Nielsen, Addison-Wesley, Avid Technologies, Bellcore, Bose, Branson Ultrasonics, Centerline Software, Ciba Corning, Cisco, CoMed, Inc., Computer Associates, Digital Computer, Dupont Company, EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Computer, HighMark, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, IRI Software, Lotus Development, Millipore, Waters, Monster.com, Motorola Computer Group, NYNEX, Physical Sciences, Inc., Praxis International, Salt River Project, Sourcegate.com, TMP Worldwide, US Robotics, US West, and the United States Navy.