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Thomas T. Hewett
Psychology, Drexel University
http://www.psychology.drexel.edu/Hewett.htm

Tom Hewett is Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Drexel University where for 30 years he has taught courses on Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Human Computer Interaction, and Problem Solving and Creativity. Tom has offered variants of this tutorial to hundreds of interaction designers at conferences and in-house training sessions. He has several times taught a weeklong course on Human Problem Solving for the User System Interaction program at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In addition, he has been visiting fellow, visiting professor or visiting researcher at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Twente University, Hengelo, The Netherlands, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, The University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece, and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Tom is a published courseware author and has worked on the development and evaluation of several interactive computing projects, including a hypertext guidebook, instructional computing software and scientific problem solving environments. Some of the his recent research has involved collaborating with a team of researchers working on enabling and facilitating mathematical problem solving using mobile devices. As a consultant for over 2 years to NIST on the NIMD project Tom participated in multiple observations of intelligence analysts at work and advised on the development of Metrics and Measures for assessing the impact of novel software tools. Other recent projects have involved field trials evaluation of use and effectiveness of software tools designed to support Emergency Response Teams using mobile devices.

Last modified 13 June 2007 at 4:47 pm by haleden