Greetings

Hello from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. In January, 2003, I "came in from the cold," returning to academia after half a lifetime in industry as a usability practitioner and manager. I attend my "new" post enthusiastically, eager to explore the theoretical underpinnings of usability, help develop a new generation of HCI researchers and usability experts, and further promote the design and development of technology that takes into account the capabilities of human users.

I welcome your call, or email, if you want to talk about human information processing, usability practice, usability education, HCI design, cognitive psychology, baseball statistics, or bonefishing on the flats of Biscayne Bay.

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Randolph G. Bias, Ph.D., CHFP
Associate Professor, School of Information
Director, Information eXperience Lab (IX Lab)
Principal, The Usability Team

Curriculum vita

Recent and Upcoming Events

On May 26th, we hosted our first "IX Lab Day," a webcast series of talks by students and faculty who have conducted studies in the past year. See more information on the IX Lab site.
Last year I won the student-elected Texas Exes Teaching Award for the School of Information, of which I am most proud.
Two students, two library colleagues, and I are pleased to have a paper appear in a recent Journal of the Medical Library Association: Moore, M., Bias, R. G., Prentice, K., Fletcher, R., and Vaughn, T. Web usability testing with a Hispanic medically underserved population. J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 April; 97(2): 114?121.
Under the "Research" tab you can read more about the two recent NSF grants on which I am co-PI.
In recent years we’ve been proud to have hosted campus-wide presentations by Jack Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Aaron Marcus.
In the unlikely event that you should want to know even more about me, see Cliff Anderson’s profile of me in the UPA Voice, December, 2007 or the UT-Austin Graduate School interview with me in their December, 2007, “Spotlight on the Faculty.”