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Stephen Wilcox

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Chairman of the Board, Design Science

Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph.D., FIDSA is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Design Science, a 40-person firm with offices in Philadelphia, Evanston, IL, and Munich, Germany. The firm specializes in research to support the usability of products, particularly those that are healthcare-related. Wilcox has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Penn State and a Certificate in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the pioneers of ethnographic field research/contextual inquiry. He has published over 70 articles in professional journals, teaches Human Factors at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the recent Editor in Chief Ergonomics in Design. His book with Michael Wiklund, Designing Usability into Medical Products, was published in 2005.