Susan M. Dray

Susan M. Dray is an American human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX) professional who is a member of the CHI academy and the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). Dray is known for her work in the field of UX design and is also a founding member of SIGCHI, the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for human-computer interaction.[1]

Education

Dray earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Mills College in Oakland, California in 1972.[1] She then went on to pursue her Masters and PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

Career

Dray's career in industrial research began in 1979 at Honeywell, where she became Manager of Human-Technology Impacts and also a Senior Research Scientist.[2][3] Later, she worked at American Express, and became the first to develop a usability lab of corporate systems in the industry.[3]

In 2014, Dray went to Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) in Panama City as a Fulbright Scholar to develop and enrich an HCI program for the university.[4]

Dray currently serves as the President of Dray & Associates Inc., which is a small user experience consulting firm where she leads a team that plans and carries out user experience and design research on their clients' main products. She started the company in 1993.[5]

Awards and recognition

Dray has won numerous awards over the course of her career, most notably her Lifetime achievement in practice award in 2015, the highest award given by SIGCHI.[6] In 2017, she became an ACM Fellow "for co-founding ACM SIGCHI and disseminating exemplary user experience design and evaluation practices worldwide."[7] She is also recognized by the UXPA who awarded her the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.[8] In addition, she is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.[9][3]

Other awards:

  • Lifetime service award[10] - SIGCHI (2006)
  • Distinguished Member[7] - ACM SIGCHI (2008)

References
  1. "Online User eXperience Institute - Susan Dray, Ph.D." ouxinstitute.com. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  2. "User Friendly 2008 Speaker Introduction : Susan M. Dray". www.upachina.org. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  3. "2015 SIGCHI Awards". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  4. "Susan Dray | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  5. "Dray & Associates". www.dray.com. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  6. "Award Recipients". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  7. "Susan Dray". awards.acm.org. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  8. "Announcing the 2016 UXPA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner | User Experience Professionals Association". uxpa.org. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  9. "HFES Fellows". hfes.org. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  10. "2006 SIGCHI Awards". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved April 2, 2018.

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