nexUX People: Anne McLaughlin

nexUX People: Jon Bohlmann

Dr. Jonathan Bohlmann [https://poole.ncsu.edu/people/jdbohlma/] is a professor of marketing and innovation in the Department of Business Management at North Carolina State University. He researches innovation adoption, and has co-taught the pioneering, multidisciplinary Product Innovation Lab [https://poole.ncsu.edu/news/2015/02/12/product-innovation-lab-enabling-students-to-master-the-path-to-market-solut/] for years. We spoke about how he turned from aerospace engineering to management, and the growing importance of UX in product design. Jon is on twitter at @jbohlmann [https://twitter.com/jbohlmann].

nexUX People: Anne McLaughlin

Dr. Anne McLaughlin [https://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/acmclaug] is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University. She is a cognitive psychologist focused on learning, the elderly, and applications of games. We spoke about her pivot from journalism to psychology, and a trial early in her career than put her in the national limelight.

NexUX teaser podcast: Josef Spjut

We preview our meetup with Josef Spjut [https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefspjut/], research scientist at NVIDIA. At his September 7th meetup [http://nexux.ncsu.edu/blog/nexuxmeetup-josefspjut], Josef will present a few early prototype applications designed to reduce distraction, including AR for wayfinding, augmented online shopping, and ideas for annotating the world around us.  In this teaser [http://nexux.ncsu.edu/blog/2017/9/28/nexux-teaser-josef-spjut], Josef talks about his early training in architecture and computer graphics, and his work on realizing real-time ray tracing. Josef is on Twitter at @josefspjut [https://twitter.com/josefspjut?lang=en].

NexUX People: Derek Ham

Dr. Derek Ham is an assistant professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. His VR project "I Am A Man" won an Oculus Launch Pad award. In this podcast, he discusses how virtual reality and augmented reality technology can expand the possibilities of interaction design.

NexUX People: Kenya Oduor

Dr. Kenya Oduor is the founder of the consulting firm Lean Geeks [http://leangeeks.net/] and an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State. She is a user-centered solution architect and people leader with past experience at LexisNexis and IBM. In this podcast, she discusses trust in technology, as well as the importance of user experience.  She also explains the value and challenges of multi-disciplinary teams.  Kenya is on Twitter at @koduor [https://twitter.com/koduor].