Yingyu (Clare) Xie

Clare graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in 2005 with a concentration in user-modeling in design, and then subsequently had acquired two years of professional experience in usability-testing and user research for business projects. In addition to spending most of the time to work on multidiciplinary teams, She often switched her roles between "researcher" and "designer." Clare has always been interested in user behavior online since the completion of her graduate thesis, "User-interface Investigation & Usability Test between Taobao and eBay." After that, She has been involved in the usability test and page revision for China Alibaba, the NEC mobile phone usability test, the HP user-interface usability test (Touch UI/Aio/Pi)and several others. The pressured experience of testing 72 users in 3 weeks and finishing data-analyzing in 1 week made her believe there could be more efficient way (more effective but less data-waste) for usability management, as well as the product management. Outside the HCI, Clare enjoys chess, cooking, tennis and spending time with friends. She plans to graduate with a Masters in HCI, School of CS, Carnegie Mellon University, in August of 2008.