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Mirjana Spasojevic BackgroundI am the team lead of the newly formed Innovate Design Experience Animate (IDEA) team at NRC, Palo Alto. We focus mobile user interfaces and user experiences, including services that accompany them. We are a group of designers, computer scientists, ethnographers, philosophers and engineers, and we work closely together throughout the development process. My StoryHow do you get to do what you are passionate about? Each person has their unique story. In the early 90s I started my career as a computer scientist, teaching database courses and later working on large-scale file, storage and distributed systems. While I could have followed that path for a very long time, my research career took an unexpected turn with several projects in the areas of mobile and ubiquitous systems. For a while my collegues and I worked hard at deploying a museum guidebook lab demo in a real situation. These project taught me the limitations of a purely technological perspective. I became passionate about user research, human-computer interaction, user experience and design and decided to retrain myself. These days I like to think of users first and what they really need. I like to think of real people on the street as they go about their daily lives, technology serving them, as opposed to the other way around. I love working in multidisciplinary teams - combining the knowledge of many disciplines and our individual strengths to see the problem in a new light. And I love to work outside of the lab, in the real world where people are truly mobile. I see my role at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto as a user research evangelist and passionate advocate for very human mobile experiences. I hope to put to good use all the things I have learned as a senior design researcher at Yahoo! Mobile business unit, a senior research scientist and project manager at HP Labs where I was part of the Cooltown program, as well earlier experiences from a startup called Transarc and as an assistant professor at Washington State University. External ActivitiesConference organizer and member of the program committees:
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