Brenda Laurel
Neogaian Interactive
Brenda Laurel has worked in interactive media since 1976 as a designer, researcher, writer and teacher. She currently a principal at Neogaian Interactive. Her current work focuses on design research and learning tools. Her books include The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (1990), Utopian Entrepreneur (2001), and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (2004), and Computers as Theatre, Second Edition (2014). She earned her BA (1972) from DePauw University and her MFA (1975) and PhD in Theatre (1986) from the Ohio State University.