Marie Jefsioutine
Senior Research Fellow
University of Central England
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Corporation Street
Birmingham
B4 7DX United Kingdom
http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk

Marie Jefsioutine is Senior Research Fellow in Digital Media. She is involved in usability research, and digital media and is particularly interested in e-learning and museums. Marie was instrumental in setting up the Faculty?s User-Lab, and is engaged in commercial projects as well as research. She has worked in multimedia design for over ten years, previously at the BBC Open University and Goldsmiths College Design Department. Marie studied Experimental Psychology (BSc Hons) at Sussex University, after which she worked in speech technology at Logica Cambridge Plc and Psycholinguistics at Cambridge University. She completed an MSc in Computing, Cognition and Psychology at Warwick University and later took a PgDip in Communications and Electronic Graphics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has produced a number of CD-ROMs and web sites, including The Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery, now on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Marie will present Designing the user experience: an evolving collaboration for research and development.