Jeff Johnson is President and Principal Consultant at UI Wizards,
Inc., a product usability consulting firm. After earning B.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities, he worked
as a user-interface designer and implementor, engineer manager,
usability tester, and HCI researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West,
Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. He has published numerous
articles on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction.
Since 1983, Johnson has been an active member of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, a public-interest organization
that examines the impact of technology on society. He was co-founder
of CPSR's "Computers in the Workplace" project, founder
and Chair of CPSR's Denver-Boulder chapter, and Co-chair of the
first U.S. conference on Participatory Design of Computer Systems,
PDC'90. In the late Eighties, Johnson joined CPSR's Executive
Committee, and in 1991 was elected to a term as Chair of CPSR's
Board of Directors. Johnson has published numerous
articles on the impact of technology on society, and has
participated in technology policy proceedings at the local, state,
and national levels. With Prof. Ben Shneiderman, Johnson co-organized
a special Social-Action session at CHI'92 in the wake of the
Rodney King riots. He is currently on the Advisory Board of NetAction,
a public-interest organization that fosters on-line skills among
political activists.