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Kara Pernice
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Director of Research,
Nielsen Norman Group
Pernice heads the NN/g's East Coast operations. She has more than 14 years
of experience in evaluating usability in the areas of collaboration,
document management, graphics and multimedia, database design, and handheld
devices.
More recently, she has studied more consumer-oriented products such as
digital cameras, cell phones, and cappuccino makers. She has also been
a user interaction designer for products ranging from Web calendar
applications, to dictation devices for radiologists, to server monitoring
programs.
Before joining NN/g she established successful programs at Lotus Development,
Iris Associates (an IBM subsidiary), and Interleaf. Pernice has been involved
in planning and designing state-of-the-art usability labs and has conducted
hundreds of lab studies;, many remote studies, field studies, and surveys.
She may be best known for practicing and championing the use of video in
usability, as a tool for analyzing, presenting, and teaching.
Pernice chaired the Usability Professionals' Association 2000 and 2001
conferences, and served as 2002 conference advisor. She holds an M.B.A.
from Northeastern University and a B.A. from Simmons College.
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