Jonathan Lazar, Forum, Interacting with Public Policy
Dr. Jonathan Lazar is a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University. He is the founder and director of the Universal Usability Laboratory at Towson University, and currently serves as director of the undergraduate Information Systems program. He is most interested in issues related to web usability and web accessibility for people with impairments. He is also interested in the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. His most recent authored book is Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach published by Addison-Wesley in 2006, and his most recent edited book is Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations published by John Wiley and Sons in 2007. He is co-author of the new book Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction to be published in 2010 by John Wiley and Sons. He currently serves as chair of the ACM SIGCHI US Public Policy Committee, and also serves on the editorial boards of Universal Access in the Information Society and Interacting with Computers.
