Alan John Dix FCBS

FLSW The Learned Society of Wales () is a national academy, learned society and Charitable organization, charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the W ...

is a British author, researcher, and university professor, specialising in

human–computer interaction Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and comp ...

(HCI). He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook ''Human–Computer Interaction''. Dix is the Director of the Computational Foundry at

Swansea University Swansea University () is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it chang ...

, since May 2018. He was previously a professor at

Lancaster University Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...

. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Publications

Books

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Contributions

* This book contains a chapter written by Dix, in summary from the 1987

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of Human-Computer Interaction held at

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

References

External links

Alan's homepage

HCI Book Website

HCI Course on interaction-design.org
* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British computer scientists Human–computer interaction researchers Academics of Lancaster University International Mathematical Olympiad participants {{Compu-scientist-stub Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales