Bio for Laurie Dringus   

     Laurie P. Dringus is a Professor in the Graduate School 
of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern
University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  She earned her
Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern 
University in 1991.  Laurie teaches graduate courses in
human-computer interaction and decision support systems. Several
of her courses are accessible via the Internet.  
Her research interests focus on design and evaluation of
human-computer interfaces, usability engineering and evaluation,
computer-mediated communications technology and user performance,
group decision support systems, and collaborative learning in
distance education environments.  She is a member of ACM,
ACM SIGCHI, IEEE Computer Society, and HFES.