Diane J. Schiano, Ph.D.
***psyche & techne***
Applied Social Science Research:
User Experience Research, Design & Evaluation
Design Ethnography
Usability
Program & Product Evaluation


Brief Bio
Resume
CV


Consulting:
Broad consulting practice based in Palo Alto / Stanford / Silicon Valley, CA area. Cognitive, perceptual, educational & social psychology. Interface and interaction design; information architecture. User experience research, usability testing, market research, web analytics, product & program evaluation, statistical analysis. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies--task analyses, user profiles & personas, ethnographic interviews & observations, survey and test design and implementation, rapid prototyping, online and lab-based usability testing, experimental studies, clickstream analysis. Domains of special interest include: communication & community, educational and training software, distance learning, teens & technology, gaming, multimedia, information visualization, navigation & search. Expert testimony. Corporate and conference workshops, tutorials & training programs available.

Selected Professional Papers & Presentations:
---CHI 2006: Tokyo Youth at Leisure: Towards the Design of New Media to Support Leisure Planning and Practice
---CSCW 2004: Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary?
---CACM 2004: "I'm Blogging This": A Closer Look at Why People Blog
---CHI 2004: Blogging by the Rest of Us.
---CHI 2004: Categorical Imperative NOT: Facial Affect is Perceived Continuously
---Spatial Cognition & Computation 2003: Descriptions of Simple Spatial Scenes in English & Japanese
---CSCW 2002: How Teens Take, View, Share & Store Photos
---CSCW 2002: The Character, Functions and Styles of IM in the Workplace
---CHI 2002: Teen Use of Messaging Media
---CHI 2002: Characterising Instant Messaging from Recorded Logs
---CHI 2001: Search and the Subjective Web
---CHI 2001: Categorical Perception of Facial Affect: An Illusion
---Pragmatics & Cognition 2000: Automatic Facial Expression Interpretation: Where HCI, AI & CS Intersect
---CHI 2000: Communicating Facial Affect: It's Not the Realism, It's the Motion
---CHI 2000: Face to InterFace: Facial Affect in (Hu)Man and Machine
---Presence 1999: Lessons from LambdaMOO
---CHI 1998: The First Noble Truth of Cyberspace: People are People (Even When They MOO)
---Psychological Science 1997: 3-D Bilateral Symmetry Bias in Judgments of Figural Identity and Orientation
---Human Performance 1989: Highs are to Lows as Experts are to Novices: Individual Differences in the Representation & Solution of Standardized Figural Analogies

Miscellaneous:
Professional
--PARC User Research Workshop/Tutorial
--Modified Tutorial
---CHI 2004 Tutorial: Usability and Beyond!

Personal
---2006 Schiano Voreck Holiday Letter
---Christo's 2006 Birthday Thank You
---Christo's 2006 Birthday Party Invite
---Room 29 End-of-Year Party 2006 Invite
---Spring 2006 Backyard Party Invite
---2005 Schiano Voreck Holiday Letter