Yvonne Rogers


Yvonne Rogers is a British psychologist and computer scientist. She is the director of The University College London Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or contributed to more than 250 publications. Her book Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction written with Jenny Preece and Helen Sharp has sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into six other languages. Her work is described in Encounters with HCI Pioneers: A Personal History and Photo Journal.

Early life

She earned her B.A. in Psychology from University of Wales in 1982, M.S. Ergonomics from University College London in 1983, and Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Wales in 1988. She was a professor of school of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University from 1992-2003, Professor in Informatics from 2003-2006 at Indiana University, and Professor of HCI at Open University from 2006-2011. She is professor and director of The University College London Interaction Centre at University College London. She was Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of 27 research grants from EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, EU and NIH. She is known for her work on iconic interface to behavioral change, and a research agenda of user engagement in ubiquitous computing.

Works

Rogers was a principal investigator for the ICRI project in collaboration with Intel. She led projects such as Visualising Mill Road, where they collected community data and visualized it as street art, and the Tidy Street project, visualising energy usage and efficiency from power meters. From 2000 to 2007, Rogers contributed to the UK Equator Project as a principal investigator, researching the relationship between physical and digital user experiences. One of the projects was "Ambient Wood", encouraging children to explore biological processes in a forest using wireless probes.
Rogers worked on a project using ambient light to nudge people to take the stairs rather than the elevator. She worked on the Lambent Shopping Trolly Project, building a lambent display that clips onto any shopping trolley to nudge buying decisions.
She worked on an AR project to "try on" makeup and see how this AR influences buying decisions.

Awards

Books