Amir Dotan
Position: Researcher (User Experience)
Email: sbbc739@soi.city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8993
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: A212 College building
Biography
Amir joined the Centre for HCI Design in October 2007 as a Researcher and is working on the APOSDLE project as lead User Experience designer as well as working on commercial projects providing various consultancy services. His work includes conducting usability evaluations, user research and requirements elicitation, information architecture and interaction design. Amir has a BA (Hons) in Multimedia Arts from Middlesex University and an M.Sc. in Human-Centred Systems from City University. He taught HCI and web development as part of an undergraduate interactive media course (2003-2009) and prior to that worked as a web developer. His main interests include usability, social aspects of computing and cross-cultural design.
Key publications
- Lichtner, V., Kounkou, A. P., Dotan, A., Kooken, J. P., Maiden, N. M. A (2009) "An Online Forum as User Diary for Remote Workplace Evaluation of a Work-Integrated Learning System". In: 27th Computer-Human Interaction Conference
- Dotan, A. & Zaphiris, P. (in press) "A cross-cultural analysis of Flickr users from Peru, Israel, Iran, Taiwan and the UK", International Journal of Web Based Communities
- Dotan, A., Maiden, N., Lichtner V. & Germanovich L. (2009) "Designing with Only Four People in Mind? - A Case Study of using Personas to Redesign a Work Integrated Learning Support System". In: INTERACT 2009 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction. Uppsala, Sweden.