Jurek (Jerzy) Zdzisław Józef Kirakowski, PhD

Present postDirector, User Experience Solutions
Languages SpokenPolish, English, French, Italian.
Date of Birth[around 1950]
CitizenshipPolish

Career Outline

2014 -Director, User Experience Solutions
1999 - 2014 Statutory Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Cork (was: University College, Cork).
1984 - 2014 Director, Human Factors Research Group (later: People and Technology Group).
1977 - 1999 College Lecturer. Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland.
1973 - 1977 PhD by thesis (Edinburgh University): Prosody and Speech Perception.
1975 - 1977 University Demonstrator. Department of Psychology, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
1973 - 1975 Part-time Postgraduate Demonstrator. Department of Psychology, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
1969 - 1973 Edinburgh University. MA (Soc Sci) Honours in Psychology, Upper second division.

Landmark Publications (till 2000)

With T. Ryan (1985). Ballinspittle: Moving Statues and Faith. Mercier Press: Cork, Ireland.

(1986) A Flexible Interface to a Real Task and its Reception by Naive and Non-Naive Users. ESPRIT technical report. Document code: HUFIT/HFRG-1-9/86.

With M. Corbett (1988). Measuring user satisfaction. In D.M. Jones & R. Winder (Eds) People and Computers, IV, Cambridge University Press. pp. 329-338.

(1988) Human - Computer Interaction: From Voltage to Knowledge. Chartwell Bratt, Bromley, Kent, UK.

With Daly, D., & Bannister, T. (1988) Introducing Expert Systems. Chartwell Bratt, Bromley, Kent, UK.

With M. Corbett (1989). The analysis of error in natural language specifications. In M. Galinier (Ed.) International Workshop On Software Engineering and Its Application pp.305-312.

With M. Corbett (1990). Effective Methodology for the Study of HCI. North Holland, Amsterdam and New York

With M. Corbett (1993). SUMI: the Software Usability measurement Inventory. Brit. J. Ed. Psych., 24(3) pp 210-212.

With N. Claridge & R. Whitehand (1998). Human Centered measures of success in web site design. Paper presented at the Human Factors and the Web Workshop, Basking Ridge, NJ. https://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/att4/proceedings/kirakowski/

With B. Cierlik (1998). Measuring the usability of websites. Proc. Hum. Fact. Ergon. Soc, 42(4) pp. 424-428

(2000) The Magical Year 2000, plus or minus seven (Invited keynote address.) CHI International, den Haag, Netherlands , 01-JAN-00 - 01-JAN-00.

Recent Publications and Papers

With McNamara, N. (2008). Measuring the human element in complex technologies. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 4(1), 1-14.

With M Brown, A Kehoe, and I Pitt (2009) Beyond the gamepad: HCI and game controller design and evaluation Bernhaupt, R. (Ed) Evaluating User Experience in Games. Springer-Verlag, London, 2010. Pp 209 - 232

With Patrick O'Donnell and Anthony Yiu (2009) Establishing the hallmarks of a convincing chatbot-human dialogue. I.Maurtua (Ed) Human-Computer Interaction. In-Tech, Vukovar, Croatia, 2009. pp 145-154

With N. McNamara (2009) Measuring the Human Element in Complex Technologies P. Zaphiris and CS Ang,(Eds) Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, London, 2009 pp 361-375

(2010) A quick guide to usability engineering resources (Web Pages) http://www.elpub.org/jzus1.htm Last updated: 8 January 2010

With Isabel L. Nunes (2010) Usabilidade de interfaces - versão Portuguesa do Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI) Proceedings of International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO10), Arezes, P., Baptista, J. S., Barroso, M. P., Carneiro, P., Cordeiro, P., Costa, N., Melo, R., Miguel, A. S. and Perestrelo, G. P. (eds), pp. 389-393, Feb, 11-12, Publisher SPOSHO, ISBN 978-972-99504-6-9, Guimarães-Portugal (2010)

With R Molich, V Hinkle, J Jensen, J Sauro, T Sharon, B Traynor (2010) Rent a Car in Just 0, 60, 240 or 1, 217 Seconds? Comparative Usability Measurement, CUE-8. Journal of Usability Studies, 2010.

With N McNamara (2011). Measuring user-satisfaction with electronic consumer products: The Consumer Products Questionnaire. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 69(6) pp. 375-386

With N. Curran (2011) Immersion in Computer Games. In: Computational Informatics, Social Factors and New Information Technologies. Milan, Italy: Blue Herons Editions.

With M Morrissey (2013). 'Realness' in Chatbots: Establishing Quantifiable Criteria. International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 87-96), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

With M. Joyce (2013). Development of a general internet attitude scale. International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability, pp. 303-311.

With G. Lindgaard (Eds) (2013) Special issue of Interacting with Computers 25(4).

With G. Lindgaard (2013) Introduction to the special issue: The Tricky Landscape of Developing Rating Scales in HCI. Interacting with Computers 25(4) pp. 201-205.

With N. McNamara (2013) The Psychometric Approach to User Satisfaction Measurement. Interact Comput 2013; 25(4) pp. 294-298.

With T. Howard, L. Gray, A. Hatter, D. Miller et al. (2013). The UTEST community: celebrating 20 years of a safe space for UX discussions. Journal of Usability Studies 9(1), pp. 1-13

(2013) Evaluating the Usability of the Human Computer Interface. In Pfleger S, Goncalves, J, Varghese, K, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Springer Science & Business Media pp 21 - 32

With A. Lawlor (2014). When the lie is the truth: grounded theory analysis of an online support group for factitious disorder. Psychiatry Res. 2014 218(1-2) pp. 209-18.

With A. Lawlor (2014). Online support groups for mental health: A space for challenging self-stigma or a means of social avoidance? Computers in Human Behavior 32 pp. 152-161.

With M. Joyce (2014). Measuring Confidence in Internet Use: The Development of an Internet Self-efficacy Scale. International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability pp 250-260

With M. Joyce (2015). Measuring attitudes towards the Internet: The general Internet attitude scale. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 31 (8), 506-517.

With A. Lawlor (2017). Claiming someone else's pain: A grounded theory analysis of online community participants experiences of Munchausen by Internet. Computers in Human Behavior 74 pp. 101-111

With K. Norman (Eds) (2018) Wiley Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (Vols 1 & 2), Wiley, 2018.

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