John R. Morris Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Supervised R&D and data analysis for 20+ concurrent research programs.Developed award-winning innovative capabilities that drove the development of features to support virtual meetings. This cross-company collaboration with the Future of Work, M365 & Teams resulted in: - Microsoft #1 – Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Data Science for 2022, Fast Company. - Microsoft #8 – World's 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2022, Fast Company. - Outlook feature, Events and invitations > Shorten appointments and meetings. - Teams feature, View > Together mode.Leadership role, established functional capabilities, defined strategy, research framework, roadmap, and priorities. Managed scientists and user researchers supporting large product portfolios and special company initiatives, along with staff supporting research, operations, and budget.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leadership, manager, and IC roles for 20+ concurrent hardware and software research programs across Windows, Surface, Teams, HoloLens, & Xbox.Established functional capabilities, defined strategy, research framework, roadmap, and priorities. Managed scientists and user researchers supporting large product portfolios and special company initiatives, along with staff supporting research, operations, and budget.Hosted hundreds of regular engagements with corporate customers as well as major media and influencers to provide insight into human factors and the product making process, helping generate revenue and gross margin for the business, and supporting global press coverage for initiatives and product launches.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed staff supporting research and operations, facilitated team and lab budget proposals, and IC roles for 10+ concurrent hardware and software research programs across Windows, Surface, Teams, HoloLens, & Xbox.- Established capabilities to design Microsoft's first earbuds, including fit and comfort, creating a path to wearable AI.- Oversaw research design and data from thousands of participants.Hosted hundreds of regular engagements with corporate customers as well as major media and influencers to provide insight into human factors and the product making process, helping generate revenue and gross margin for the business, and supporting global press coverage for initiatives and product launches.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Established Human Factors Engineering function and capabilities, including human factors, ergonomics and anthropometric scanning, biomechanics/kinematics, visual and auditory sensation and perception, and user experience/scientific research.Hardware and software R&D for Xbox, HoloLens, and wearable device design.Established capabilities and research base to create the core design principles and specifications for HoloLens to support human use, including the prevention of motion sickness.

Houston, Texas, Us

Production of the Journal of Usability Studies and maintenance of the UPA/UXPA JUS website.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Software Solutions and User Design team.UX design and research on consumer software for the Intel Extreme brand, Intel Media Share (WiDi) and enterprise applications and software tools for internal and external clients.UX design and research on novel human-computer interaction methods, including mid-air gestural research and touch screen interaction.Established new human factors R&D techniques for Ultrabooks.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Experience Design Group.Retail POS Ethnography, Insights & SolutionsR&D for mobile, tablet, laptop, and desktop products for SMB and Enterprise markets.

Startup consulting role, built a usability lab, led operations, lab promotion, workshops, developed a user experience certification program, and conducted UX design and research for websites.User experience design and usability research for multiple websites, including the School of Law, Department of Psychological Sciences, and University Libraries at Texas Tech University, Bedford/St. Martin's.Utilized many existing methodologies and created approaches for work that included end-to-end UI design and development, planning, participant screening and recruiting, testing, paper prototyping, wireframing, card sorting, questionnaire and survey development, and data analysis.Design and maintenance of website for the Texas Tech University Department of Psychology.Still, B., & Morris, J. R. (2010). The Blank-Page Technique: Reinvigorating Paper Prototyping in Usability Testing. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 53(2), 144-157.Still, B., and Morris, J. R. (2008, July). The Blank Page Technique: Re-Employing Paper Prototyping to Encourage User Involvement in Web Site Design. Paper presented at the International Professional Communication Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 13-16, 2008.Morris, J. R. (2008, April). A Flow-Diagrammatic Approach for Presenting Participant Navigation Patterns during Web Site Usability Testing. Poster presented at the Texas Regional HFES Conference, Austin, TX.Morris, J. R., and Jones, K. S. (2009, April). Can distance estimation training help some tasks and hurt others? Paper presented at the Sixth Annual One-Day Symposium addressing Human Factors and Ergonomics, Houston, TX.

79409, Tx, Us

Investigations of air traffic controller operations with cognitive task analyses. Extensive behavioral research studies conducted with air traffic controller instructors at the Federal Aviation Administration Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. Study planning, sophisticated data analyses, and management of staff involved with lab operations. Studies funded by grants from the Federal Aviation Administration.Durso, F. T., Sethumadhavan, A., Crutchfield, J., and Morris, J. R. (2011). Relevance and Prestige of Information in Air Traffic Control Towers. Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2011), pp. 169-189.Morris, J. R., Sethumadhavan, A., Girotto, S., Durso, F. T., and Crutchfield, J. (2007, October). The Structure of Information in the Air Traffic Control Tower. Poster presented at the annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Baltimore, MD.Crutchfield, J., Hitt, J. M., Morris, J. R., & Truitt, T. R. (2007, April). Towards Information Requirements for Airport Traffic Control Towers. Panel presentation at the 14th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, OH.Morris, J. R., Dattel, A. R., Sethumadhavan, A., Girotto, S., Bleckley, M. K., Durso, F. T., and Crutchfield, J. (2007, March). Would you like some information? A study of air traffic controllers. Paper presented at the South Texas Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Antonio, TX.Investigations into distracted driving.Mork, K., Morris, J., & Durso, F. T. (2006). Cell phones and change blindness: A test of the "head out of the car" hypothesis. American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Champaign, Il, Us

Stereological tissue processing for the analysis of neuroanatomical and cellular structures. Work conducted at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.Yates, M. A., Markham, J. A., Anderson, S. E., Morris, J. R., & Juraska, J. M. (2008). Regional variability in age-related loss of neurons from the primary visual cortex and medial prefrontal cortex of male and female rats. Brain Research, 1218, 1-12.Markham, J. A., Morris, J. R., and Juraska, J. M. (2007). Neuron number decreases in the rat ventral, but not dorsal, medial prefrontal cortex, between adolescence and adulthood. Neuroscience, 144, 961-968.

Champaign, Il, Us

Stereological tissue processing for the analysis of neuroanatomical and cellular structures. Work conducted at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.Roegge, C. S., Morris, J. R., Villareal, S., Wang, V. C., Powers, B. E., Klintsova, A. Y., Greenough, W. T., Pessah, I. N., Schantz, S. L. (2006). Purkinje cell and cerebellar effects following developmental exposure to PCBs and/or MeHg. Neurotoxicology & Teratology, 28(1), 74-85.

Champaign, Il, Us

Research at the Institute of Aviation in the domain of air traffic control designed to facilitate the creation of a taxonomy of measures (e.g., direct, indirect, objective, subjective). Work funded by grants from the Federal Aviation Administration.

M.A., Experimental Psychology Human Factors

B.S., Psychology