Linda Tauscher
I am a director/consultant with NetStart Consulting Ltd.. I specialize in Web development, and user interface design and evaluation. My resume contains a detailed description of my consulting work and previous employment.
Affiliations / Memberships
I am a member of the following organizations:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The Internet Technical Group, a community of professionals interested in the application of Human Factors principles and methodologies to Internet technologies
SIGCHI, an ACM special interest group devoted to Computer-Human Interaction
Systers, a mailing list for women in computing science
Usability Professionals Association
People / Organizations
People and organizations that are special to me:
Jeff Caird, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Jeff specializes in human factors, human error, and perception - action research. I was Jeff's student in his comprehensive human factors graduate course; I also attended his human error graduate course.
Saul Greenberg, Computer Science professor and leader of The Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware Research Laboratory at the University of Calgary (as well as my Master's thesis supervisor). I served as a teaching assistant for Saul's undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) class, Foundations and Principles of HCI. I was Saul's student in Research Methodologies in HCI, and Research Methodology for Computer Science.
Keith Instone, originator of the WebHCI mailing list and Web site, now known as usableweb.com. Usable Web is a guide to human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
Jacob Nielsen, is a SunSoft distinguished engineer, and is informally known as the father of hypertext (Vannevar Bush was the grandfather) and usability engineering. Jacob writes an informative and thought-provoking bi-monthly column about Web usability issues called Alertbox.
Microsoft's Usability Research Group, which I was fortunate to visit during the Designing for the Web: Empirical Studies conference that they hosted in October, 1996.
Volunteer Work
Computer classroom assistant and one-on-one computer tutor at The Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 2004 & 2006.
Library assistant at James Fowler High School, 2006.
Literacy tutor at Frontier College, 2003.
Computer and adaptive technology workstation coach at The Calgary Public Library, 2002-2003.
Computer classroom assistant at The Calgary Drop-In Centre, 2002.
Yoga class assistant for the Multiple Sclerosis Society - Calgary, 2002-2004.
Program committee member for the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, May 11-14 1999, Toronto.
Provided Lynx, Netscape, and HTML training for U of C campus women's groups to assist them in establishing a Campus Women web site (spring 1995).
Delivered a three hour World Wide Web Workshop to the Women's Studies 405 (Gender and Technology) class.
Assisted in the development and authoring of the first version of the U of C Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) web site. One of the objectives of this project was to demonstrate the numerous science-related resources that exist on the Internet to WISE members in other scientific disciplines. For example, we introduced the Ecology Connections Group to the joys of navigating the WWW with Netscape.
With Womens Studies Professor Barbara Crow, presented a series of eight workshops about Email and the World Wide Web on behalf of the Women's Collective and Resource Centre Society (fall 1995).