Elizabeth Rodwell
Assistant Professor of Digital Media, University of Houston
Liz Rodwell is founding director of the University of Houston UX program and Lab. After receiving her PhD in Anthropology, Liz worked in as a senior UX researcher for 6 years and is the former executive director of UXPA Houston. After accepting her current position as Assistant Professor of Digital Media. Liz began to focus on bringing UX to communities that haven’t yet discovered it, like the field of digital humanities. Her other research is on Conversational UX and how to teach UX in university settings. Her book is: “Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan.”
My Sessions
How Can UX Make History Accessible? Adventures in storytelling through UX
Waterloo Salon 1-4Ancient history is to be found in places other than books and museums these days, and since UX is almost everywhere, it was inevitable that the two should meet. But as projects in the digital humanities–or interactive exhibits, sites, and apps with humanities content– have grown in number, usability has not been factored in. Our […]