Personalities

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

Links to home pages and details of authors, critics and philosophers in cognitive psychology and HCI.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html

Alan Cooper

An extremely influential software interface designer, the Visual Basic interface being one of his creations.
http://www.cooper.com/

Deborah Hix

Joint developer of User Action Notation.
http://www.cs.vt.edu/vitae/Hix.html

Don Norman

A founding figure in both cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction.
http://www.jnd.org/

Jakob Nielsen

Influential usability guru and prolific HCI writer.
http://www.useit.com/

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

The main proponent of mental model theory.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~phil/

Terry Winograd

Came to prominence as a computational linguist, but subsiquently rejected the philosophical basis of his work in that area.  Now influential in HCI, with an emphasis on design.
http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/