Cubicle 20 in T38A.

PhD in Experimental Psychology.

Specialties:

• "The Bridge" participatory method for designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that conform to object-oriented GUI style.
• Creation and application of object-oriented GUI style.
• Writing of GUI style guides.
• Rigorous but practical approaches for making whole-lifecycle software development policies and practices produce more useful and usable products.

Previous employers: Sun Microsystems, Bellcore, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Bridging User Needs to Object Oriented GUI Prototype via Task Object Design
Tom Dayton, Al McFarland, & Joseph Kramer
A thorough, dense description of The Bridge, a participatory method for designing graphical user interfaces in object-oriented style. 1998, in Larry Wood (Ed.), User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from Requirements to Design (pp. 15-56), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-3125-0.

Practical Education for Improving Software Usability
John Karat & Tom Dayton
Short description of part of the rationale for using methods such as The Bridge. 1995, Proceedings of CHI 95, pp. 162-169. Full text is available on line at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=223925.

Cultivated Eclecticism as the Normative Approach to Design
Tom Dayton
Metatheoretical rationale for using a multifaceted approach to design the user experience of software. (This was the rationale for creation of The Bridge methodology, which is described in the "Bridging User Needs" chapter.) 1991, in John Karat (Ed.), Taking Software Design Seriously: Practical Techniques for Human-Computer Interaction Design (pp. 21-44), Boston: Academic Press.

Participatory Practices in the Software Lifecycle
Michael J. Muller, Jean Hallewell Haslwanter, & Tom Dayton
Catalog of 61 participatory practices from around the world. "The Bridge" method is listed as number 61, "Workshop for O-O GUI Designing from User Needs." 1997, in M. Helander, P. Prabhu, & T. Landauer (Eds.), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition (pp. 255-297), Elsevier Science.

Design Guide for Multiplatform Graphical User Interfaces (LP-R13, Issue 3)
Al McFarland & Tom Dayton
Object-oriented GUI style that complies with these other styles: Microsoft Windows, IBM CUA, CDE, and Motif. This style is used in the original version of The Bridge method that is described in the "Bridging User Needs" chapter. 1995, Piscataway, NJ: Bellcore. Available from Telcordia: http://telecom-info.telcordia.com/site-cgi/ido/newcust.pl?page=idosearch&docnum=LP-R13&