Lynn ChernyPh.D.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ghostweather.com
Current place of employment:
Ghostweather Research and Design, LLC (consulting)
Lynn Cherny is a consultant and interaction designer in Massachusetts with 12 years of design and management experience. She started her career in HCI research (AT&T Labs), and then worked at TiVo, Excite, Adobe, Autodesk, The Mathworks, and a consulting firm in France. She has published two important books on online community and internet communication (Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World and Wired Women).
Lynn is available for talks on design, research methods for data-driven organizations, design management, and online community. Her consulting areas include requirements research, data mining, interaction design, and prototyping. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in the UK.
Publications by Lynn Cherny (bibliography)
» 2008 «
Cherny, Lynn (2008): Designing 'Up' in the Software Industry. In: Erickson, Thomas D. and McDonald, David W. "HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that Have Influenced the HCI Community". MIT Press pp. 205-210
» 2007 «
Cherny, Lynn (2007): I See Evidence of Research... What About Design?. In Interactions, 14 (5) pp. 52-53
» 1999 «
Cherny, Lynn (1999): Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World. Stanford, California, Center for Study of Language and Information
View publication info on Amazon.com or .co.uk 
» 1998 «
Whittaker, Steve, Terveen, Loren, Hill, Will and Cherny, Lynn (1998): The Dynamics of Mass Interaction. In: Poltrock, Steven and Grudin, Jonathan (eds.) Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 14 - 18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 257-264. Available online
» 1997 «
Cherny, Lynn, Clanton, Chuck and Ostrom, Erik (1997): Entertainment is a Human Factor: A CHI 97 Workshop on Game Design and HCI. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 29 (4) pp. 50-54
» 1996 «
Cherny, Lynn and Weise, Elizabeth Reba (eds.) (1996): Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Seattle, WA, Seal Press View publication info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
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Publication statistics
Publication period:1996-2008
Publication count:6
Number of co-authors:6
Productive colleagues
Lynn Cherny's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Loren Terveen:42Steve Whittaker:38
Will Hill:13
Collaboration count
Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
Erik Ostrom:1Elizabeth Reba Weise:1
Chuck Clanton:1
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