Diane Schiano

Who is Diane Schiano?

Diane Schiano is an independent consultant on user experience and online community. She received her doctorate in experimental psychology (perception) from Princeton, and did a post-doc (in spatial cognition) at Stanford. She was an NRC Research Fellow in aerospace human factors at NASA/Ames Research Center, studying helicopter pilot navigation strategies. She worked in interface design at Sun Microsystems before joining Interval Research Corporation in early 1993. She remained at Interval until recently, leading a research project which performed psychological research to inform interface design. She has published in a wide variety of areas, including: Visual-spatial orientation navigation, information visualization, browsing search, facial affect affective interfaces, and online communication community.