Bonnie E. John
Professor

Carnegie Mellon University
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office: 3521 Newell-Simon Hall

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EDUCATION

  • The Cooper Union
    • B. E., Mechanical Engineering, 1977
    • Full Tuition Scholarship for four years.
    • Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society.
    • Pi Tau Sigma, Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.
    • Wilson G. Hunt Mechanical Engineering Prize
    • Graduated Summa Cum Laude
  • Stanford University
    • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1978.
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    • M.S., Cognitive Psychology, 1984 ,
    • Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, May, 1988,
    • R. K. Mellon Fellowship for 1983-1984.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

  • National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994.
  • Professional Engineer's License in the State of New York, 1981.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • January 2000 – March 2000: Visiting Scientist, Xerox Research Centre – Europe, Cambridge, UK.
  • August 1999 – August 2000: Visiting Scientist, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • July 1997 - present: Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy appointment to the Department of Psychology and Computer Science Department.
  • July 1997 -present: Director of the Masters of Human-Computer Interaction Program, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • July 1996 - June 1997: Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy appointment to the Department of Psychology and Computer Science Department.
  • Sept 1992- July 1996: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy appointment to the Department of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
  • April 1989-Sept 1992: Research Faculty, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy appointment to the Department of Psychology.
  • March 1996: Consultant for Microsoft Corp. Seminar and project-specific consulting on GOMS modeling applied to product development.
  • April 1992-May 1992: Expert witness qualified in human performance, cognitive psychology, and human-computer interaction, retained by AT&T for the TMAC Contract, GSBCA Docket Nos. 11776-P &11777-P.
  • December 1988-May 1991: Consultant for NYNEX Corp, White Plains, NY. Conducted a theoretical analysis of skilled performance on two different toll & assistance telephone operator workstations. This analysis predicted the outcome of a large-scale field trial of the workstations.
  • May 1988-April 1989: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • September 1988-June 1989: Consultant for the Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. Conducted a feasibility study to explore the construction of an expert system to aid in the design of human-computer interfaces.
  • April 1987-September 1988: Consultant for CarnegieWorks, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA. Provided advice on design and testing of documentation for computer systems.
  • February 1985-March 1985: Consultant for American Robot Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. Designed a hand-held control panel for an industrial robot.
  • June 1977-August 1983: Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ.
    • September 1977-August 1978: On Stanford's campus earning an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
    • September 1978-September 1980: Physical designer responsible for the design and selection of printers, the design of control panels for office graphics equipment, and the design of communication protocols for teleconferencing.
    • October 1980-December 1982: Systems engineer responsible for customer installability and maintainability for a small business telecommunications system now being marketed as MERLIN (a registered trademark of AT&T).
    • January 1983-August 1983: (Employed by American Bell Inc., later to become AT&T Information Systems.) Systems engineer for large business terminals. Responsible for a high-end executive data and telecommunications terminal and for a low-end home-and-business data and telecommunications terminal.

Last modified on May 23, 2003 by bej@cs.cmu.edu