Deborah J. Mayhew
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materBrown University (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Tufts University (PhD)[1]
Known forUsability engineering
Scientific career
FieldsUsability engineering
Human–computer interaction
ThesisSyllogistic Reasoning[2] (1981)

Deborah J. Mayhew is an American educator and consultant in the field of software usability, usability engineering, and human–computer interaction. She participated in the founding of SIGCHI and was a volunteer organizer at the first CHI conference in 1983.[3]

Work

Mayhew has published multiple books on usability,[3][4][5] including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle.[6] In 1994, Mayhew co-edited Cost-justifying Usability with Randolph Bias,[7][8] which was included on professor Gerald J. Alred's list of "essential works" on documentation and usability and described as "famous" by SIGCHI.[9][3]

In 2023, Mayhew received SIGCHI's Lifetime Practice Award.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Experience – Deborah J. Mayhew, PhD". Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  2. ↑ Tufts University 125th Commencement Exercises (PDF), May 31, 1981
  3. 1 2 3 4 Kumar, Neha (February 14, 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023". Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Deborah J. Mayhew | Internationally recognized consultant, author, and teacher". Udemy. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  5. ↑ Tomlin, Craig (July 1, 2009). "Interview with Dr. Deborah J. Mayhew | Useful Usability". Useful Usability. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  6. ↑ Cohen, Maxine S. (November 1, 2000). "Book reviews". Behaviour and Information Technology. 19 (6): 465–467. doi:10.1080/014492900750052714.
  7. ↑ Wixon, Dennis (April 1, 1995). "Book Review: Cost Justifying Usability: Edited by Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. Mayhew". ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 27 (2): 94–97. doi:10.1145/202511.570126. ISSN 0736-6906. S2CID 9291110.
  8. ↑ Miller, Elisa Kaplan (2006). "Review of Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age". Technical Communication. 53 (2): 246–247. ISSN 0049-3155. JSTOR 43090729.
  9. ↑ Alred, Gerald J. (2003). "Essential Works on Technical Communication". Technical Communication. 50 (4): 585–616. ISSN 0049-3155. JSTOR 43095604.
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