About the Author

Jenny Preece is Dean of The College of Information Studies and a Professor at University of Maryland College Park . She researchers and teaches courses about online communities, human-computer interaction and usability. Jenny also worked in distance education at the British Open University for fifteen years. During that time she developed multi-media courses and authored or edited over 45 learning texts on information systems, computing, human-computer interaction and education. She chaired the first distance education masters course in human-computer interaction. She is an author of a leading text on human-computer interaction and numerous other publications. She is currently co-authoring an introductory text on human-computer interaction with Yvonne Rogers and Helen Sharp, entitled 'Interaction Design', which will be Published by John Wiley & Sons in 2001.

Jenny was born on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada but has lived most of her life in England. She now lives in Washington DC, with her partner Ben. She misses London but likes the wide-open spaces of the US and visiting New York City. Jenny enjoys biking, gardening, skiing, baking bread and drinking good wine, when she's not working.

Jenny is strong admirer of Marc Kostabi's art and she has visited Kostabi World in New York. Jenny thanks Marc and his brother Paul for allowing her to include Marc's pictures in her book.

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