Technical Team

Jason Williams, PhD
Project Director, Europe

Job at HFI

• Client engagement & project definition
• Project management
• Designing user interface architectures for large, complex multi-site systems
• Producing corporate design standards
• User requirements & task analysis
• Prototype development
• Usability testing
• Teaching HFl's courses throughout Europe and South Africa

Experience

Psychology and design have been passions of Jason's from an early age, defining his educational background which includes Masters degrees in Psychology and Human Factors and a doctoral degree in the psychology of visualizing information.

Jason then started work in the Internet domain, conducting usability projects for a variety of clients in the UK, before moving to Germany to set up a User-Centred Design Process within Sony's European Research Headquarters. Jason then worked in the Professional Broadcasting division of Sony before joining HFI.

Throughout this time Jason has worked on the usability of a wide range of different products, including:

• Internet sites
• CRM software
• Corporate intranets
• Banking transaction systems
• Projection based PDA's
• Speech controlled systems
• Handwriting recognition systems
• Automobile diagnostic equipment
• Hardware / software for TV studio networking

Most of this work has been carried out within international teams across Europe, Asia and the US. Jason is therefore extremely well versed in dealing with the issue of cultural differences in usage and design.

Education

PhD in Cognitive Ergonomics
2003 Loughborough University, UK

MSc in Human Factors in Manufacturing Systems
1996 University of Nottingham, UK

MA (Honours) in Psychology
1994 University of Aberdeen, UK

Williams J, Michelitsch G, Van Veen HJ, Goronzy S; MIAMM: Lessons Learned in Haptic & Tactile Interaction; Eurohaptics 2004; June 5th-7th 2004, Munich, Germany

Michelitsch G, Williams J, Osen M, Jimenez B, Rapp S; Haptic chameleon: a new concept of shape-changing user interface controls with force feedback; CHI 2004; pp. 1305-1308; April 24th-29th 2004; Vienna, Austria

Rapp S, Michelitsch G, Osen M, Williams J, Barbisch M, Bohan R, Valsan Z, Emele M; Spotlight Navigation: Interaction with a handheld projection device; Pervasive Computing 2004; April 21st-23rd 2004; Vienna, Austria

Haag A, Goronzy S, Schaich P, Williams J; Emotion Recognition Using Bio-Sensors – First Steps Toward an Automatic System; Affective Dialogue Systems 2004; June 14th-16th, 2004; Kloster Irsee, Germany

Michelitsch G, Osen M, Williams J, Jimenez B, Rapp S; Haptic chameleon: shape-changing haptic controls; Eurohaptics 2004; June 5th-7th 2004; Munich, Germany

Williams J, Michelitsch G; Designing Effective Haptic Interaction – Inverted Damping; Proceedings of CHI 2003; pp. 856-857; Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA; April 5th-10th 2003

Williams J, Michelitsch G, Moehler G, Rapp S; A Methodology for Evaluating Multi-Modality in a Home Entertainment System; Proceedings of the IEEE-ICMI 2002; pp.460-465; Pittsburgh; October 14th-16th 2002

Technical Team