Speaker Bio

Shibani Kapoor

Shibani Kapoor is a Human Factors Engineer at Intel Corporation in the Information Technology department. She partners with cross-functional teams across Intel and uses various data gathering methods to evaluate and improve the user experience of business processes and software applications used by internal Intel employees as well as Intel’s customers and suppliers. She also develops user interface specifications, user and context assessments, scenarios, business flow diagrams, and prototypes. She prioritizes and tracks usability issues throughout the planning, design, development, and deployment phases of the project lifecycle. She provides strategic direction, consultation, advocacy, and education on effective user-centered design methods and usability issues across the organization.

She is interested in understanding the usability variances in different cultures and designing evaluation methodologies that take them into account.

Shibani has a Bachelors degree in Math-Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She completed her M.S. in Information specializing in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.