Author: Renate J. Roske-Shelton
Ph.D.
Renate Roske-Shelton is the Director of Usability at Quotient Inc., a small consulting company in Columbia, MD. She currently works as a contract consultant to the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Office of Communication and Computing Systems (OCCS) where she conducts usability studies as well as undertakes basic grant-funded research. She earned her Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces and has worked in various National Research Laboratories on a variety of challenging applied technology issues ranging from Aircraft Cockpit Menu design at NASA Ames Research Center to Medical and Health Information Messaging issues related to the design, usability and accessibility of NLM Web sites. Renate is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the ACM special interest group for Human-Computer Interaction and participates in many local professional associations. Her primary interest lies in the development and application of scientifically rigorous methods and the documentation of best practices to achieve excellent design solutions for user interfaces for evolving technologies.
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Bangiolo, Lois, Roske-Shelton, Renate J. (2007). \'What killed Wazzu?\' Game development project for the NLM/OCCS Web Development group.
Jackson, Jeffrey C., Roske-Shelton, Renate J. (1989): Circling: A Method of Mouse-Based Selection Without Button Presses. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 161-166.
Roske-Shelton, Renate J. (1989): Video in Applied Cognitive Research for Human-Centered Design. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (2) pp. 75-77.
Roske-Shelton, Renate J., Remington, Roger (1988): HITEXS: A Context-Sensitive Interface for Cooperative Human-Machine Fault Diagnosis; Build. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (4) pp. 24.
Paap, Kenneth R., Noel, Ronald W., McDonald, James E., Roske-Shelton, Renate J. (1987): Optimal Organizations Guided by Cognitive Networks and Verified by Eyemovement Analyses. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg, Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 617-622.
Roske-Shelton, Renate J., Mayfield, Tom (eds.) 1st Annual UPA DC Conference: Usability in the Medical Domain 2006, 2006, Washington DC.
Roske-Shelton, Renate J., Bangilo, Lois (2007): Wiki Platforms for Collaboration: When Convenient Access and Ease of Use are Not Enough. In: Battle, Lisa (eds.) User Focus October 12, 2007, Washington, DC. pp. 144-161. https://www.upa-dc-metro.org/conference/2007/index.php